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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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 tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling 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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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