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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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