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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMSometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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