For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTo 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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