I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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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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