The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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 wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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