More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all in the sixties.
  2. It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
  3. Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first r…
  4. 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.
  5. He knew that women appreciated neither irony nor sarcasm, but simple jokes and funny stories. He was amply provided with both.
  6. What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Camb…
  7. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it valu…
  8. Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

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