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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
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Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
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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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As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people.
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A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
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It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
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and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.
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The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
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By the time an actor knows how to act any sort of part he is often too old to act any but a few.
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I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it, it remained utterly remote. I think it had lost sense for him. In his heart was the reflection of a lovely dream that he could never quite recall.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.
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A good Havana is one of the best pleasures that I know.
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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.
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A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.
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Failure make people bitter and cruel. Success improves the character of the man.
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It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.
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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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