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Quotation from The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

“I have never begun a novel with more misgiving.”

W. Somerset Maugham (spoken by The narrator (Maugham))

The Razor's Edge, Chapter One, section i, opening sentence (Doubleday, Doran / Heinemann, 1944)

Portrait of W. Somerset Maugham

The narrator's first sentence, which introduces the book's unusual claim to be a record of real people rather than invented fiction.

Citation: "I have never begun a novel with more misgiving." — W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge, Chapter One, section i, opening sentence (Doubleday, Doran / Heinemann, 1944). (id the-razors-edge-q2)

Portrait: Somerset Maugham (1934), Carl Van Vechten, Public domain.

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