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The Complete Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham

by W. Somerset Maugham

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24 MAR 26: "The Four Dutchmen" ***

This is the last story in the Cosmopolitans collection. But since the collection has no central theme or order to it, this is also just another story.

Lake many of these stories, "The Four Dutchmen" is more of an excu ...more "

Mar 24, 2026 08:10AM · see review

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“A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.”
― Bernard Malamud, Dubin's Lives

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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― Anthony Trollope, The Warden

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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

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“A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

tags: arbitrariness, beginning, creative-process, end, storytelling, writing

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“On the morning appointed for her departure Tess awoke before dawn — at the marginal minute of the dark when the grove is still mute save for one prophetic bird, who sings with a clear-voiced conviction that he at least knows the correct time of day, the rest preserving silence, as if equally convinced that he is mistaken.”
― Thomas Hardy

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