If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMLife is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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 a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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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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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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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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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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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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