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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

W. Somerset Maugham

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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it’s just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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He is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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You’re intoxicated by the boundless space.
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As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it.
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If a man hasn’t what’s necessary to make a woman love him, it’s his fault, not hers.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.
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But it may be that the way of life that he has chosen for himself and the peculiar strength and sweetness of his character may have an ever-growing influence over his fellow men so that, long after his death perhaps, it may be realized that there lived in this age a very remarkable creature.
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I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan’t make the mistakes I’ve made.
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