There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTolerance is only another name for indifference.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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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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