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W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
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W. Somerset Maugham
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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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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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Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.
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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
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The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.
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No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
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A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
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The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.
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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.
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The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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