An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
¶ (Attributed)
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William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English novelist and playwright
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
¶ (Attributed)
I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
¶ (Attributed)
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
¶ (Attributed)
What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God.
¶ A Writer's Notebook
It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.
¶ Of Human Bondage (1915)
It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
¶ The Moon and Sixpence
It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
¶ The Summing Up (1938)
I have not been afraid of excess: excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
¶ The Summing Up (1938)
Suffering did not ennoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, mean, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things ... it made them less than men.
¶ The Summing Up, ch. 19 (1938)
On his experiences as a medical student and the patients he observed.
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