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- When Piedmont died, I had to pay him back for my life. I found out there's another debt to pay - for the privilege of being alive. I thought Sophie was my reward for trying to live a good life. Uh uh. There is no payoff - not now. Larry Darrell: It's easy to be a holy man on top of a mountain.
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- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1944
- “You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge.
- “Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
- “For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in.
- “The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.” ― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge.
Isabel Bradley: Oh, my God! Larry Darrell: I don't give a damn if they catch who killed her. What I want to know is how you got her to take the first drink. What'd you do, get her going on Bob and the baby? Did you get her down and keep her there?
The novel's title comes from a translation of a verse in the Katha Upanishad, paraphrased in the book's epigraph as: "The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path to Salvation is hard."
- W. Somerset Maugham
- 1944
Oct 7, 2024 · The Razor's Edge is a 1984 romantic drama film about an American army ambulance driver/medic traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life. Directed by John Byrum.
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Larry. Like many other veterans, Larry came back from the war transformed and full of questions. First of all, he couldn’t decide whether there was God or not. The pursuit of God became his new life mission. When he was a boy, he visited a Sunday school, but back then he had no question to ask.
Maugham foreshadows the end of the story in which Larry, having achieved his quest for meaning, becomes a Christ figure, a holy man passing briefly through the lives of other people, changing them, perhaps, but remaining invisible himself.
