Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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