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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

W. Somerset Maugham

British novelist and playwright

Nationality: British
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1874-1965
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Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
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They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
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The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
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The poet is the priest of the invisible.
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh
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The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.
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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) -but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in
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