I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTo recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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