If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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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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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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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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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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