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Imagination grows by exercise.
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
Exercise
Imagination
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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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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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it
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