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W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
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A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
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Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
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They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection but perhaps she does not always remember him.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
W. Somerset Maugham
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
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