• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

    W. Somerset Maugham: The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
    "Ten Novels and Their Authors". Book by W. Somerset Maugham, 1948.