How To Use Maugham In A Sentence
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. W. Somerset Maugham
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Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. W. Somerset Maugham
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The racism, I think, is on at least three levels: the characters' (which is crude), Maugham's (which is nuanced by his own sense of outsiderhood), and the moviemakers', which is, as you say, unexamined--they didn't know how to depict Asians except by using stereotypes.
Roundup
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts---William Somerset Maugham, English novelist and playwright.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ---William Somerset Maugham.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham
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Before the departure for Paris, Mrs Maugham fortunately forfeited her position by various gratuitous and irrelevant remarks about the expense.
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People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham
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Pankaj is like those dilettantes one reads about in Somerset Maugham, who fear boredom more than old age, death, poverty or mendicancy.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham
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Clearly, Porter agreed with Somerset Maugham's aperçu: ‘Money is like a sixth sense, without which one cannot make use of the other five.’
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Not long after, Wellcome sued for divorce, naming Maugham as co-respondent.
Brooks Peters: Mariage Blanc
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham
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Doffing its panama hat to the likes of Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, poet Shukman's promising first volume of fiction features a cast of expat chancers looking for a second bite of the cherry in sundry banana republics.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham
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Based on a play by W. Somerset Maugham, this melodrama stars Bette Davis as a rubber-plantation owner's wife in Singapore who commits a deadly crime of passion.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham
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At the French villa that he purchased in 1926 and which served as his primary residence until his death in 1965, Maugham entertained scores of friends and wayfarers in Gatsbyesque style.
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This that the dingily umpteenth and longways photometric ropiness of adzharia up sinapism with uniformity dinornis is suave to be daffo and attendant to maugham use.
Rational Review
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People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. W. Somerset Maugham
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When James came on to take a bow, never before had Maugham heard ‘such an outburst of boos and catcalls’.
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Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. W. Somerset Maugham
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The title comes from a short story by Ian Fleming that is apparently in the style of Maugham.
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. W. Somerset Maugham
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Before the departure for Paris, Mrs Maugham fortunately forfeited her position by various gratuitous and irrelevant remarks about the expense.
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Personal valets glide silently past, afternoon tea is served at exorbitant prices, and trinkets of the previous visitors are left in some of the rooms - Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Noël Coward.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. ---William Somerset Maugham.
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham
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I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. W. Somerset Maugham
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know. W. Somerset Maugham
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham
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Yet Maugham was one of the great masters of clever narrative and construction, with a surprising range when it came to characters.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. W. Somerset Maugham
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham
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With Maugham it is a kind of stoical resignation, the stiff upper lip of the pukka sahib somewhere east of Suez, carrying on with his job without believing in it, like an Antonine Emperor.
Inside the Whale
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The nonconformist painter's incompatibility with French colonial life provided Maugham with a pretext to explore the role of the artist in society.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give. W. Somerset Maugham
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In his literary creation of The Moon and Sixpence, Maugham received profound influence from Gauguin and his Tahitian pictures.
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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. W. Somerset Maugham
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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. W. Somerset Maugham
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So I long for the energetic verve of a Saki, the narrative vigour and cultural cameos of a Maugham, the imaginative bizarreness of a Roald Dahl or the feminine insights of a Doris Lessing.
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A trilogy of plaster furnishings is in the naturalistic manner of Serge Roche, the French designer whose output Elsie de Wolfe and Syrie Maugham competed for in the '30s: a palm-tree torchier ($200 to $300), a mirror with pie-crust shell work ($500 to $800) and a glass table with a wheat-sheaf base ($200 to $300).
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His other enthusiasms as a reader include John Steinbeck, James Baldwin and Somerset Maugham.
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The denouement of "Ghost-Writer" is, in fact, reminiscent of Somerset Maugham, a no-nonsense writer who had no use for James's involuted ambiguities.
Her Master's Voice From the Other Side
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Waugh, Graves, Maugham, Wodehouse, Coward: the interwar writer had not really arrived until he had a passport, a boat or train ticket and a chunky brass key to a room in a European capital.
House of Exile by Evelyn Juers – review
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It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. W. Somerset Maugham