Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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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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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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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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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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.
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