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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
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W. Somerset Maugham
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More quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
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Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
W. Somerset Maugham
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
W. Somerset Maugham
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.
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and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.
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Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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Sherry, the civilized drink.
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Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
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The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.
W. Somerset Maugham
Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
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