"Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of
originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its
first reaction is one of anger." —W. Somerset Maugham, Great Novelists and Their Novels: Essays on the Ten Greatest Novels of the World and the Men and Women Who Wrote Them (1948)Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Quote of the Day (Somerset Maugham, on Originality and the World)
"Now the world in general doesn't know what to make of
originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its
first reaction is one of anger." —W. Somerset Maugham, Great Novelists and Their Novels: Essays on the Ten Greatest Novels of the World and the Men and Women Who Wrote Them (1948)
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