If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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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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