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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Achievement Activity Aim Beauty Crown Delicacy End Human Literature Mind Poetry Sublimest
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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Character Crete Incident Matter Pasion Sincerity Story Tell Write
A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Dictator Fool Himself Must One People Time Way
You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Boundless Intoxicate Space
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Age Amaze Began Country Eighty Elde Language Learn People Person Statement Young
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Another Indifference Name Only Tolerance
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Get Her Life Love Much Nery One Rest Spend Wish Woman
You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Experience Guidance Learn More Quick Teacher Under
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Anything Long Made Mind Myself Others Short
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Best Mediocre Only
If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Fault Her Man Necessary Woman
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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Arrange Dictionary Found Matter Right Sentence Story Use Word
As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Country Life Place
Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Best Desire Often Overcome Satisfy Way
To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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Anyone Bear Best Character Courage Failure Give Proof

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