Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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We 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.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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