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We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
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Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
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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 ... Don't wait for experience to come to you go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
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Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
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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 do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
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The end of culture is right living
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Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.
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