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It is astonishing how many books I find there is no need for me to read at all.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
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When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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As the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life.
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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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Writing is the supreme solace.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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No woman is worth more than a fiver unless you're in love with her. Then she's worth all she costs you.
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You cannot write well or much (and I venture the opinion that you cannot write well unless you write much) unless you form a habit.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?
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In religion above all things the only thing of use is an objective truth. The only God that is of use is a being who is personal, supreme and good, and whose existence is as certain as that two and two make four.
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If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
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He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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