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W. Somerset Maugham
British
January 25, 1874
Playwright
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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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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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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