I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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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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