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Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it
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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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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She [Sadie Thompson] gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!
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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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I am sick of this way of life. The weariness and sadness of old age make it intolerable. I have walked with death in hand, and death's own hand is warmer than my own. I don't wish to live any longer.
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It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
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No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind.
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Tolerance is another word for indifference.
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It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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