There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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