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Trying Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- 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,…
- What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that…
- 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…
- Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
- 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…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash