To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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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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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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