Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When a woman loves you she’s not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she’s weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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I’ll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart’s in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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