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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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Physician Writer
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Screenwriter
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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Character
Enough
Never
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Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.
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Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.
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Comedy appeals to the collective mind of the audience and this grows fatigued while farce appeals to a more robust organ, their collective belly.
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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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Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
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First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.
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The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
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I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
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And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.
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Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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Have common sense and stick to the point.
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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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