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W. Somerset Maugham

"Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life."

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"Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"Only sick music makes money today."

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"Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career."

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"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."

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"Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them."

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"Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."

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"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
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"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
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"Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous."
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"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."
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"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."
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"Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it."
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"Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less."
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"The crown of literature is poetry."
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