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It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
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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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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When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.
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There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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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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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
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Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
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By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
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You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.
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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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In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
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There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.
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