In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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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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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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