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W. Somerset Maugham

" The crown of literature is poetry. "

W. Somerset Maugham

Poetry , Literature

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" The crown of literature is poetry. "

W. Somerset Maugham

Poetry , Literature

" The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. "

W. Somerset Maugham

Variety , Unity

" The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. "

W. Somerset Maugham

American

" The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. "

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Love

" The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency. "

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Expediency

" The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. "

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People , Success , Self

" 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 reaction is one of anger. "

W. Somerset Maugham

World , Thought , First , Anger , Originality , Habits

" People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. "

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People , Want , Praise , Criticism

" The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress. "

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World , Misfortune , Sight

" The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. "

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Writers , Trouble

" The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill. "

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Nature , Water , Soul , Artist

" The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. "

W. Somerset Maugham

Ability , Wit

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