There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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