W. Somerset Maugham Quotes - Page 21

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• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.

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  Giving, Missing, Fiction

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• When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice; it wasn't lasciviousness; it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.

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  Funny, Sex, Humorous

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.

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  Years, Twenties, Problem

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.264, Diversion Books

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