The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLove is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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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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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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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.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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