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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

W. Somerset Maugham
Life, Book, Reading

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

W. Somerset Maugham
Education, Book, Reading

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

W. Somerset Maugham
Book, Reading, Eye
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.446, Diversion Books

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

W. Somerset Maugham
Disappointment, Real, Reading
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.45, Diversion Books

I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.

W. Somerset Maugham
Funny, Book, Reading

Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.

W. Somerset Maugham
Book, Reading, Thinking
W. Somerset Maugham (1941). “the Gentleman in the Parlour”

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

W. Somerset Maugham
Funny, Book, Reading

I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.

W. Somerset Maugham
Book, Reading, People
W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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