You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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 can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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