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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
Playwright
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Screenwriter
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Paris
France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.
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The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
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Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.
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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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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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Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.
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You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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The great trues are too important to be new.
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Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
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A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.
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