If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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 only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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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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