It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIt was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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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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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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