We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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