W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 2

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• I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

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  Time, Past, Thinking

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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• It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

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  Use, Milk, Cry

  "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham, (Ch. 68), 1915.

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• There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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  Writing, Real Talk, Story Writers

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• If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

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  Motivational, Change, Believe

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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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  Generations, Aging, Nonsense

  Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)

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• If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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  Women, Men, Faults

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• The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

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  Love, Life, Important

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.760, The Floating Press

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• Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

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  Politics, Wealth, Wells

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

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  Time, Memories, Age

  Points of View Ch. 1

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• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

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  Food, Breakfast, Want

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• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

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  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Of Human Bondage (1915) ch. 51

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• My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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  Life, Sex, Gay

  "Somerset Maugham". Book by Ted Morgan, 1980.

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• Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

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  Men, Association, Sometimes

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1429, eBookIt.com

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• Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? 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. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.

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  Fashion, Beach, Lying

  W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1312, eBookIt.com

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• It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

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  Children, Humble, Humility

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• It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

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  Life, Friendship, Time

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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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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  Mistake, Waiting, Matter

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• Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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  Powerful, Writing, Creativity

  "The Summing Up" by W. Somerset Maugham, Doubleday, Doran & Co., (p. 164), 1938.

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• The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.

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  Love, Life, Heartbreak

  "A Writer's Notebook" by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 13), 1949.

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• The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

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  Men, Clothes, Well Dressed

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• Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

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  Life, Cute, Chance

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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

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• All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

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  Writing, Matter, Story Writers

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• There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

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  Mean, Anxiety, Human Bondage

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.342, Diversion Books

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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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  Teaching, Diversity, Social Justice

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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