You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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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 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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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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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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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