If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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