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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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France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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Never
Characters
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Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
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It does the heart good to look at you.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
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Only mediocre people are at the best all the time.
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Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it
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There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.
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Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
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She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness it was curious then that she could not love him, but loved still a man whose worthlessness was now so clear to her.
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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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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you it may have other and much more profound meanings for the critic, but at second-hand they can be of small service to you.
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Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.
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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.
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Women are strange little beasts,' he said to Dr. Coutras. 'You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you.' He shrugged his shoulders. 'Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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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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