Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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