If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMOf all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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