More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
"The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love."
"The 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."