#on

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#rubs #sentiment #sentimentality #way #wrong

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#american #been #great #great american #novel

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #long #old #old age #ready

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#create #down #hill #his #liberation

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #good #good things #life #things

I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing. ↗

— Diana Ross

#change #changes #does #i #i think

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#becomes #book #come #eyes #i

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#epigrams #few #make #only #tell

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#better #considering #did #foolishly #how

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#because #ceased #concern #dead #death