In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMBeauty 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.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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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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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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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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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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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.
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Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can communicate with his fellows only by signs, and the signs have no common value, so that their sense is vague and uncertain.
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You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they?
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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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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