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Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.
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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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
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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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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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It needs a good deal of philosophy not to be mortified by the thought of persons who have voluntarily abandoned everything that for the most of us makes life worth living and are devoid of envy of what they have missed. I have never made up my mind whether they are fools or wise men.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
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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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