Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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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.
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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’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 beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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