It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMThere are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Death doesn’t affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn’t concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don’t.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experience. It’s illimitable. It’s such a happy life. There’s only one thing like it, when you’re up in a plane by yourself, high, high, and only infinity surrounds you.
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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