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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
Novelist
Physician Writer
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
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Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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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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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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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
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There are men whose sense of humour is so ill developed that they still bear a grudge against Copernicus because he dethroned them from the central position in the universe. They feel it a personal affront that they can no longer consider themselves the pivot upon which turns the whole of created things.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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The normal is what you find but rarely. The normal is an ideal. It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men, and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.
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As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.
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Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members.
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A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.
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Imagination grows by exercise.
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