Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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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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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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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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