Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThey 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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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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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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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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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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