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All W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
W. Somerset Maugham
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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."
W. Somerset Maugham
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
W. Somerset Maugham
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We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham
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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
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