There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMImagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I’m going to bring up my daughter so that she’s free and can stand on her own feet.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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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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A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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