I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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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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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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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 crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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