We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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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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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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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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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 complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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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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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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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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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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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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