When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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