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W. Somerset Maugham

1874 - 1965

W. Somerset Maugham was a British playwright, novelist, and short story writer. He is known for his works such as "Of Human Bondage," "The Razor's Edge," and "The Moon and Sixpence," which often explored themes of human nature and morality. Maugham's writing style and storytelling abilities have solidified his place as one of the most popular and influential authors of the 20th century.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.
W. Somerset Maugham
#death #mortality #perception
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.
W. Somerset Maugham
#age #memories #burden
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 values more, it will lose that too.
W. Somerset Maugham
#freedom #irony #values
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
W. Somerset Maugham
#money #senses #completeness
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
W. Somerset Maugham
#art #expression #adventure
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
#reading #refuge #habit
The rarest of human qualities is consistency.
W. Somerset MaughamOf Human Bondage, p. 123, 1915
#consistency #qualities #rarity
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
W. Somerset Maugham
#writing #inspiration #routine