You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMDeath doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you’re ground down by convention. You can’t think as you like and you can’t act as you like. That’s because it’s a democratic nation. I expect America’s worse.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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A dictator must fool all the people all the time and there’s only one way to do that, he must also fool himself.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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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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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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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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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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