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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

Death

Concern

Living

Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.

W. Somerset Maugham

Mother

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Have common sense and stick to the point.

W. Somerset Maugham

Common sense

I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.

I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

W. Somerset Maugham

Life

Mind

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

W. Somerset Maugham

Time

Nothing

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

W. Somerset Maugham

England

Want

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

Rules

Writing