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| cfc9362 | I wasn't frightened for myself; I was indignant; it was the wickedness of it that broke me. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| e01767a | He took you by force-yes, he was drunk at the time. It's not the first time that's happened to a woman and it won't be the last time. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 9750014 | I used to think that one day I should write a really great novel, but I've long ceased even to hope for that. All I want people to say is that I do my best. I do work. I never let anything slipshod get past me. I think I can tell a good story and I can create characters that ring true. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| f5f9417 | It was the period in Germany of Goethe's highest fame. Notwithstanding his rather condescending attitude towards patriotism he had been adopted as the national poet, and seemed since the war of seventy to be one of the most significant glories of national unity. The enthusiastic seemed in the wildness of the Walpurgisnacht to hear the rattle of artillery at Gravelotte. But one mark of a writer's greatness is that different minds can find in.. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 38625d9 | He shook his fist at her. He was the mildest of creatures and ventured upon no action of his life without consulting her. "No, Helene, I tell you this," he shouted. "I would sooner my daughters were lying dead at my feet than see them listening to the garbage of that shameless fellow." The play was The Doll's House and the author was Henrik Ibsen." | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| b388389 | The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 3b8ef37 | To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 6901fc6 | It is a grotesque misapprehension which sees in art no more than a craft comprehensible perfectly only to the craftsman: art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| caa9756 | The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fellows, and invents a legend to which it then attaches a fanatical belief. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 52c7faa | His heart went out to them. There was one quality which they had that he did not remember to have noticed in people before, and that was goodness. It had not occurred to him till now, but it was evidently the beauty of their goodness which attracted him. In theory he did not believe in it: if morality were no more than a matter of convenience good and evil had no meaning. He did not like to be illogical, but here was simple goodness, natura.. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| ad6be97 | There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood. I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you e.. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| cdc5995 | It would have been reasonable for Hayward to stand aside and watch with a smile while the barbarians slaughtered one another. It looked as though men were puppets in the hands of an unknown force, which drove them to do this and that; and sometimes they used their reason to justify their actions; and when this was impossible they did the actions in despite of reason. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 7f2b6bc | I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I felt that only life after life, life after life could satisfy my eagerness, my vigour, and my curiosity. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 2a3ca37 | Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money. | law law-enforcement poverty | W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 24cee20 | The anthem was interminable, and you had to stand drearily while it was being sung; you could not hear the droning sermon, and your body twitched because you had to sit still when you wanted to move about. Then Philip thought of the two services every Sunday at Blackstable. The church was bare and cold, and there was a smell all about one of pomade and starched clothes. The curate preached once and his uncle preached once. As he grew up he .. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 36236d1 | It was an exquisite memorial to that than which the world offers but one thing more precious, to a friendship; and as Philip looked at it, he felt the tears come to his eyes. He thought of Hayward and his eager admiration for him when first they met, and how disillusion had come and then indifference, till nothing held them together but habit and old memories. It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months.. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 66a7105 | The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment. Pain and disease and unhappiness weighed down the scale so heavily. What did it all mean? He | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| b97248f | Philip exulted, as he had exulted in his boyhood when the weight of a belief in God was lifted from his shoulders: it seemed to him that the last burden of responsibility was taken from him; and for the first time he was utterly free. His insignificance was turned to power, and he felt himself suddenly equal with the cruel fate which had seemed to persecute him; for, if life was meaningless, the world was robbed of its cruelty. What he did .. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 9db2cd3 | Oh, don't talk to me about your socialists, I've got no patience with them," she cried. "It only means that another lot of lazy loafers will make a good thing out of the working classes. My motto is, leave me alone; I don't want anyone interfering with me; I'll make the best of a bad job, and the devil take the hindmost." | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 1944040 | She had learnt long ago that common sense, intelligence, good-nature, and strength of character were unimportant in comparison with a pretty face. | W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| 38a1f55 | Sometimes, when I'm alone." He looked at Philip. "You think that's a condemnation? You're wrong. I'm not afraid of my fear. It's folly, the Christian argument that you should live always in view of your death. The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man. I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribl.. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 44a02e6 | to follow one's instincts with due regard to the policeman round the corner, had not acted very well there: it was because Cronshaw had done this that he had made such a lamentable failure of existence. It seemed that the instincts could not be trusted. Philip was puzzled, and he asked himself what rule of life was there, if that one was useless, and why people acted in one way rather than in another. They acted according to their emotions,.. | William Somerset Maugham | ||
| 3d008a5 | White birds by night, black birds by day. | Cara Hunter | ||
| 4aa86d9 | What do we do?" Fernando asks. I step toward the Candor. Maybe they aren't programmed to shoot. I stare into the glazed eyes of a woman in a white blouse and black slacks. She looks like she just came from work. I take another step. By instinct I drop to the ground, covering my head with my arms, and scramble backward, toward Fernando's shoes. He helps me to my feet. "How about let's not do ?" he says. I lean forward--not too far--and pee.. | Veronica Roth | ||
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| b9725d7 | Nostalgia for what? Nostalgia is when you want things to stay as they were. I know so many people who stay in the same place. And I think, my God, look at them! They're dead before they die. Living is risking. | Cara Black | ||
| 7b2e7a9 | Morgane hated working with amateurs. Amateurs with hairy palms, her uncle would say, so lazy they grew hair on their palms. | Cara Black | ||
| 27f7052 | Vous allez trouver votre place." You will find your place." | Cara Black | ||
| 540d0cd | que me serviria cagarme en la mesa de mi antiguo jefe, limpiarme con sus papeles y luego partirle la cara, si despues nadie se entera? | Fernando Trujillo Sanz | ||
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| ff7a327 | But life's only worth living if you live, | Cara Black | ||
| e1fe032 | You want Interpol statistics? Three quarters of stolen art end up transited through a minimum of three countries, exchanged for goods including arms and gold. Recently, someone traded art for a restaurant chain in Slovakia." A means to an end. A kind of currency." | Cara Black | ||
| bf178a1 | The fact is," Cara continues, "the data network exists, and that is ethically questionable, but I believe it can work to our advantage here. Just as the computers can access data from other factions, they can data to other factions. If we sent the data you wished to rescue to every other faction, destroying it all would be impossible." "When you say 'we,'" I say, "are you implying that--" "That we would be going with you?" she says. "Obvi.. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 1f8630e | Fernando crouches next to one of the beds and takes out a box. He digs inside it for a few seconds, then picks up a small, round disc. It is made of a pale metal that I saw often in Erudite headquarters but have never seen anywhere else. He carries it toward me on his palm. When I reach for it, he jerks it away from me. "Careful!" he says. "I brought this from headquarters. It's not something we invented here. Were you there when they attac.. | Veronica Roth | ||
| 8f3f810 | One of the first keys to success, he considered, was to recognize the difference between problems you could do something about and problems you could do nothing about. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 9f54c65 | I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life, and there has never been a time when reading was not my greatest joy. And yet I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Yet it is not the same. Books are, for me, it must be said, the most important th.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| f5ad1d1 | I cannot pretend that the reading I have done in my adult years matches in its impact on my soul the reading I did as a child. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| d5798b3 | What is it that allows human beings to see through each other's pretendings? For I understood quite clearly in that moment that she was anxious. Perhaps emotions have a smell or taste; perhaps we transmit them unknowingly by vibrations in the air. Whatever the means, I knew just as surely that it was nothing about me in particular that alarmed her, but only the fact that I had come and was a stranger. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 1dca083 | There was no magic behind the silence - it was the soft-furnishings that did it. Overstuffed sofas were piled with velvet cushions; there were upholstered footstools, chaise longues, and armchairs; tapestries hung on the walls and were used as throws over upholstered furniture. Every floor was carpeted, every carpet overlaid with rugs. The damask that draped the windows also baffled the walls. Just as blotting paper absorbs ink, so all this.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| ad0a426 | Don't be so polite. If there's one thing I can't abide, it's politeness. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| 300bc17 | For nearly sixty years I have eavesdropped with impunity on the lives of people who do not exist. I have peeped shamelessly into hearts and bathroom closets. I have leaned over shoulders to follow the movements of quills as they write love letters, wills and confessions. I have watched as lovers love, murderers murder and children play their make-believe. Prisons and brothels have opened their doors to me; galleons and camel trains have tra.. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| d92559a | When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void. | Diane Setterfield | ||
| f974a17 | The storyteller gave me a sideways look. "Miss Lea, it doesn't do to get attached to these secondary characters. It's not their story. They come and go, and when they're gone, they're gone for good. That is all there is to it." | Diane Setterfield |