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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
Playwright
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Screenwriter
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France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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The best style is the style you don't notice.
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For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Do you like card tricks? No, I hate card tricks, I answered. Well, I`ll just show you this one. He showed me three.
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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
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The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
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There is only one way to win hearts and that is to make oneself like unto those of whom one would be loved.
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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For my part I cannot believe in a God who is angry with me because I do not believe in him. I cannot believe in a God who is less tolerant than I. I cannot believe in a God who has neither humour nor common sense.
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No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
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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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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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Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
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I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
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We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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Do you absolutely despise me, Walter? No. He hesitated and his voice was strange. I despise myself.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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