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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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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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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.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others. [The human element]
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No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
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Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.
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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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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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The humorist has a good eye for the humbug he does not always recognize the saint.
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We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.
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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.
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Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.
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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
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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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I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
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