I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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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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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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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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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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