The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
W. Somerset MaughamWords have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
W. Somerset MaughamFreedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: freedom
Ye cannot find out the depth of the heart of man, neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh; then how can ye search out God, that hath made all these things, and know His mind, or comprehend His purpose?
W. Somerset MaughamMarriage is a very good thing, but I think it’s a mistake to make a habit of it.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: marriage habbit w-somerset-maugham
Saw everything larger than life size, with the outlines blurred, in a golden mist of sentimentality.
W. Somerset MaughamIt looked as though you did not act in a certain way because you thought in a certain way, but rather you thought in a certain way because you were made in a certain way. Truth had nothing to do with it.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: philosophy psychology
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
W. Somerset MaughamLife is there to be lived rather than to be written about.
W. Somerset MaughamA writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.
W. Somerset MaughamStichwörter: experience writing facts writer nonsense sheep chop mutton
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