We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMoney is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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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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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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn’t matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material …
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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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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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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 secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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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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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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