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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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Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
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Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
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Charm and nothing but charm at last grows a little tiresome. It's a relief then to deal with a man who isn't quite so delightful but a little more sincere.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
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She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
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I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The spirit is often most free when the body is satiated with pleasure indeed, sometimes the stars shine more brightly seen from the gutter than from the hilltop.
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