Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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A 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.
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One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
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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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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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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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Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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