Quote by Somerset Maugham
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. – Somerset Maugham

Other quotes by Somerset Maugham

It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it. – Somerset Maugham

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Friendship
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones. – Somerset Maugham

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The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Sr.

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What is the city but the people? – William Shakespeare

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A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. – Herbert Prochnow

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There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks. – Philip G. Hamerton

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It is difficult not to write satire. – Juvenal

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I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I cant remember us working it out. – Art Garfunkel

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Not through wrath but through laughter one slayeth. – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), “Of Reading and Writing,” Thus Spake Zarathus

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When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. – African proverb

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