You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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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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