If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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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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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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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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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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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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