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W. Somerset Maugham

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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.


— W. Somerset Maugham


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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.


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


— W. Somerset Maugham


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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.


— W. Somerset Maugham


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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.


— W. Somerset Maugham


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Maugham had been writing steadily since the age of 15 and fervently wiW. Somerset Maughamd to become an author but as he was not of age he refrained from telling his guardian. A. Based on the novel Theatre.

The first run of his first novel Liza of Lambeth (1897) sold out so rapidly that Maugham gave up medicine to write full time. During and after the war he traveled in India and Southeast Asia; all of these experiences were reflected in later short stories and novels.

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