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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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
Somerset Maugham
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Enough
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A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
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Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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