You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMNow 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably.
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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