Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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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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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
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Don’t wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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