How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
W. Somerset MaughamThere is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
W. Somerset MaughamIts a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
W. Somerset MaughamThe 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 MaughamIt needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
W. Somerset Maugham