If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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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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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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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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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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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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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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