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...Maugham: "I think it very unlikely...
...Maugham: "Upon my word you couldn't put it more delicately...
...Maugham : "That's the most inconclusive reason for not writing that I've ever heard...
...Maugham has also succeeded in producing five Americans who are credible to other Americans - "that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in the world's confusion, so wistful of good, so cocksure on the outside, so diffident within, so kind, so hard, so trustful and so cagey, so mean and so generous . . . the people of the United States...
Perhaps 20 years ago Maugham could not have written about either mysticism or Americans with quite so straight a face. For all his life Maugham has endeavored to write skillfully and never in passion. Now age and art have refined his feelings to the vanishing point. The Razor's Edge is the crowning triumph of that utterly dispassionate virtuosity to which he has always aspired-a persuasive as well as an entertaining book, by a man of 70 who is still "of the earth, earthy," about a young man who has found a faith...