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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
Category: Books and Reading Author: W Somerset Maugham
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I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: W Somerset Maugham
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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.
Category: Homosexuality Author: W Somerset Maugham
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Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
Category: Life Author: W Somerset Maugham
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
Category: Love Author: W Somerset Maugham
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Category: Love Author: W Somerset Maugham
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I don't think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
Category: Manners Author: W Somerset Maugham
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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.
Category: Marriage Author: W Somerset Maugham
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
Category: Miscellaneous Author: W Somerset Maugham
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I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
Category: People Author: W Somerset Maugham
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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.
Category: Poetry Author: W Somerset Maugham
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Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.
Category: Poker Author: W Somerset Maugham
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Category: Sex Author: W Somerset Maugham
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Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.
Category: Truth Author: W Somerset Maugham
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Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Category: Wise Words Author: W Somerset Maugham
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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
Category: Writing Author: W Somerset Maugham
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