“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.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

Source: A Writer's Notebook (1946), p. 48

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British playwright, novelist, short story writer 1874–1965

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