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Cannot Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.
- Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It…
- No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
- Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
- It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
- It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future.…
- It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that…
- It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
- You cannot write unless you write much.
- One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.
- One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal for not caring…
- People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing…
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