It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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I´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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