W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham CHwas a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth25 January 1874
inspirational positive-thinking world
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
art may emotion
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
sex adultery committed
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
writing real-talk three
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
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Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
women differences long
As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
love life human-bondage
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
people perfection sometimes
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
sports children school
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...
writing stories use
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
inspirational secret life-is
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
fool bigger
I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
falling-in-love husband rate
She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate.
break-up broken-heart breakup
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.