The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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