Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMI´m not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he’s willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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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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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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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.
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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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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it.
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The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They’re both very good things.
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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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