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W. Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham CH (/mɔːm/ MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s.

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

Bad, Children, Jobs, Round, Struggle

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.

Book, Eye, Meaning, Passage, Phrase, Reading

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

Create, Ideas, Men, Regard, Thing, World

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Humor, Laughing, Laughter, People, Teaches

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you. ” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good. ” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

Beautiful, Good, Hands, Kitty, Men

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

Five, Happiness, Inspirational, Life, Make, Sixth

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

Avoid, Doe, Reality, State, States

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

Admitted, Book, Buy, Met, People, Reading

You cannot write unless you write much.

Unless, Write, Writing

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Convention, Deception, Difficult, Eye, Independence, Set

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No. " He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.

Despise, Strange, Voice

When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.

Age, Durable, Eighteen, Emotion, Emotions, High School

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

Good, Good Woman, Likes, Pretty, Wicked, Women

It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.

Censure, Courage, Oneself, Praise, Sad, Salutary

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

Concerned, Judging, Know, Writer, Writing

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

Defects, Friendship, Inspirational, Know, Life, Merits

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that offers for the middle-aged or elderly writer, whose thoughts should more properly be turned to graver matters, occupying himself with the trivial concerns of imaginary people. For if the proper study of mankind is man it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial, and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

Beings, Incoherence, Men, Occupy Yourself, Real, Writer

if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes on inside her - well, it's much better to pretend you're the simple, innocent old fool she almost certainly takes you for.

Daughter, Know, Knowing, Mother, Simple

I cannot believe in a God who has neither humor nor common sense.

Atheist, Believe, Common Sense, God, Sense

I [Death] was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.

Appointment, Baghdad, Death, Samarra, See, Tonight

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