To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMMost people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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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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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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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
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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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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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if you’d ever had a grown-up daughter you’d know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her – well, it’s much better to pretend you’re the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
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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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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
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