It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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 ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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