Author of quotes: William Somerset Maugham. Page 2

Maybe someday in the distant future people will become smarter and will understand what to look for consolation and support you need in your own heart. I personally it seems that the need to pray - it's just a relic of the ancient memory of the brutal gods who had to be placated. I think that God is either inside me or anywhere else.

Artist lone wolf. He has his own special way. And if the pack banishes him, he is good. Immoderate praise adoring Rodney initiative that, at best, only show potential abilities, he is only a harm: if he believes that his work is good, he will have no incentive to work better. Complacency is death for the artist.

Some people are strangely arranged. Other criminals are working up a sweat, preparing the offense for which imprisoned, and after release, start all over again and again end up in prison. If they invested the same effort, the same ingenuity, imagination, patience in any honest business, they would have lived comfortably and had held high positions. But so they are arranged. They like to commit crimes.

Sometimes something small can have on us action, quite incongruous with its actual value. It all depends on the situation and our mood at that moment.

There is a belief that when a person that's not suitable, he becomes a writer.

... to study under the guidance of experienced teachers faster. If there is nobody to lead you, and then hit a dead end and wasting a lot of time.

We, the Mature people, and do not suspect as ruthlessly, and, moreover, accurately judge our children.

... no one exists by itself. People, this country where they were born, and a farm or a city apartment, where they learned to walk, the games they played as kids and gossip that they had a chance to eavesdrop, and the food they were fed, the school where they were taught the sport that they are fond of, poets who read and the God in whom he believed.

Death ends all, so it is a natural conclusion of any plot.

Love is just a bad joke that nature joking with people to achieve procreation.

And here's the weird part: looking into his heart, she saw that caused her indignant resentment not Julia Lambert the woman; she was still. It has torn, the wrongs done to Julia Lambert the actress.

People thought that she only plays those two or three hours, which is on the stage; they didn't know that impersonated her character secretly lived in her all day; and when she seemingly enthusiastically with someone talking, and when I was doing some business. Julie often thought that it mixes two faces: popular actress and universal favorite, the woman who dresses the best in London, but it is only an illusion, and the character that she portrays every night, and that is its true substance.

Good news then lie on the spot!

Our weaknesses and not our strengths that make us precious to our friends.