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“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.” (Summing Up Quotes)
William Somerset Maugham
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“For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“From time to time, however, writers have engaged in politics. Its effect on them as writers has been injurious.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“I had found out that money was like a sixth sense without which you could not make the most of the other five.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“I have a notion that when the intelligent look for thought in a playhouse, they show less intelligence than one would have expected of them. Thought is a private thing. It is the offspring of reason.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“I wrote one of these books because I had to have enough money to carry me on for the following year; the other because I was at the time much taken with a young person of extravagant tastes and the gratification of my desires was frustrated by the attentions of more opulent admirers who were able to provide the luxuries that her frivolous soul hankered after. I had nothing much to offer but a serious disposition and a sense of humour.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“Suffering did not make them more than men; it made them less than men”
William Somerset Maugham
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“The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments, and maybe hardships, unimportant…Nothing befalls him that he cannot transmute into a stanza, a song, or a story, and having done this, be rid of it. The artist is the only free man.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“The silence was enchanting. Infinite space seemed to enter it, and my spirit, alone with the stars, seemed capable of any adventure.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness. Too often, as we know, it gives rise to self-complacency.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“We know very little even of the persons we know most intimately; we do not know them enough to transfer them to the pages of a book and make human beings of them. People are too elusive, too shadowy, to be copied; and they are also too incoherent and contradictory.”
William Somerset Maugham
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“You cannot write unless you write much.”
William Somerset Maugham
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