I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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 well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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