I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThe future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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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 well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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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 secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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