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We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
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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In heaven, when the blessed use the telephone they will say what they have to say and not a word besides.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.
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