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 MAUGHAMThe 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?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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 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 it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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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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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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