You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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