Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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