Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMA bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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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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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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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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Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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