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The crown of literature is poetry.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.
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Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.' Didn't you mean them?' At the moment.
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Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
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I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
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She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.
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Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.
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There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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