It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMShe loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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