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 MAUGHAMIn Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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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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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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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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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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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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