“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” ― Kurt Vonnegut, "Mother Night" (1961)
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Of course Maugham, in his stiff upper-lipped gentility, would find nobility in our social masks. I read Cakes & Ale in March.
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A wonderful book -- but not, I would say, one calculated to engender in the reader a breathless and starry-eyed idealism.
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