You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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