You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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