The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAnyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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