If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMAs the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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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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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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