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Been Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
- I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
- It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they…
- Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies…
- The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one…
- On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's…
- Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
- It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
- Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a…
- The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
- 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…
- Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt,…
- You've been brought up like a gentleman and a Christian, and I should be false to the trust laid upon me by your dead father…
- The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased…
- She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human…
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