I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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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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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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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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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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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.
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