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  • I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

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  • 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 Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.

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    "Newsweek" Magazine, May 23, 1960.

  • The crown of literature is poetry.

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    W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.90, Random House

  • The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

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W. Somerset Maugham

  • Born: January 25, 1874
  • Died: December 16, 1965
  • Occupation: Playwright
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