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

Quote by W -Somerset Maugham

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Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're...

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're...

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best...

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best...

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their...

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their...

To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city,...

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city,...

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual...

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual...

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual...

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual...

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

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

Writing is the supreme solace.

Writing is the supreme solace.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of...

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of...

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

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

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has...

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has...

Boys are like stars, there are millions of them out there, bbut only one can...

Boys are like stars, there are millions of them out there, bbut only one can...

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering...

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering...

And so today, my world it smiles, Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,...

And so today, my world it smiles, Your hand in mine, we walk the miles,...