In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMWe seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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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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If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one’s dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one’s life with her.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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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.
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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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