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“But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing? Who knows? Maybe that was 'despair.' What Turgenev called 'disillusionment.' Or Dostoyevsky, 'hell.' Or Somerset Maugham, 'reality.' Whatever the label, I figured it was me.”

Self Reality Hell Despair Disillusionment Dostoyevsky Maugham

Book:Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“People wonder at the romantic lives of poets and artists, but they should rather wonder at their gift of expression. The occurrences which pass unnoticed in the life of the average man in the existence of a writer of talent are profoundly interesting. It is the man they happen to that makes their significance.”

Writing Expression Writer Poets Authors Experiences W Somerset Maugham Maugham A Writer S Notebook

Book:A Writer's Notebook

Source: A Writer's Notebook

“But she looked well and healthy and full of beans.”

Health Beans Maugham

Book:Cakes and Ale

Source: Cakes and Ale

“How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with love and adoration; a few years passed, the children grew up, and persons not of their kin were more important to their happiness than father or mother. Indifference displaced the blind and instinctive love of the past. Their meetings were a source of boredom and irritation. Distracted once at the thought of a month's separation they were able now to look forward with equanimity to being parted for years.”

Children Parents Maugham

Book:The Painted Veil

Source: The Painted Veil

“I've been quite happy. Look, here are my proofs. Remember that I am indifferent to discomforts which would harass other folk. What do the circumstances of life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space?”

Happiness Common Dreams Human Misery Bondage Essential Maugham

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Mrs Davidson was saying she didn't know how they'd have got through the journey if it hadn't been for us," said Mrs Macphail, as she neatly brushed out her transformation. "She said we were really the only people on the ship they cared to know." "I shouldn't have thought a missionary was such a big bug that he could afford to put on frills." "It's not frills. I quite understand what she means. It wouldn't have been very nice for the Davidsons to have to mix with all that rough lot in the smoking-room." "The founder of their religion wasn't so exclusive," said Dr Macphail with a chuckle. William Somersert Maugham, "Rain”

Rain Short Story Missionary Work Maugham South Seas

Author:William Somersert Maugham