W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 2

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• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

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  Beautiful, Wise, Wisdom

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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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• 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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• If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

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  Writing, Character, Passion

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• I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

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  Mean, Difficult

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.32, Random House

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• Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.

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  Art, May, Emotion

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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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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• What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

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  Self, Democracy, Atheism

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

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  Names, Tolerance, Atheism

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.34, Random House

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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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• 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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• 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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• The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

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  Poetry, Achievement, Mind

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• Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

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  Love, Men, Happens

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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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• 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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• She loved three things — a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.

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  Wine, Men, Glasses

  W. Somerset Maugham (2012). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.134, Courier Corporation

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• Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.

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  Determination, Funny Things, Want

  The Mixture as Before "The Treasure" (1940)

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• One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

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  Soul, World, Finding Peace

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.119, Random House

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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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• We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

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  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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

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• It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

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  Education, Hard Work, Knowledge

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• Imagination grows by exercise.

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  Exercise, Imagination, Creative

  "The Summing Up". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1938.

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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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• It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

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  Beautiful, Beautiful Day, Bed

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