I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMUnfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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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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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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