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.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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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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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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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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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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