W. Somerset Maugham Quote

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.


Great Novelists and Their Novels (1948)


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...