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Genius is talent provided with ideals.
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
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Physician Writer
Playwright
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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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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The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
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I'd sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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I thought it was only in revealed religion that a mistranslation improved the sense.
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Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.
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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
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There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
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The humorist has a good eye for the humbug he does not always recognize the saint.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
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The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.
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The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.
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