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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
English dramatist & novelist [more author details]
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People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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There are few things so pleasant as a picnic eaten in perfect comfort.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, 1943
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