Men seek but one thing in life — their pleasure.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMImpropriety is the soul of wit.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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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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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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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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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.
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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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