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Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
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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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
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The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
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The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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The humorist has a good eye for the humbug he does not always recognize the saint.
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She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
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He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
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The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
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I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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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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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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