Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDon’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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