If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMy own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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 seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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