It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMArt is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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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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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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