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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMYou know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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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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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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