You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?
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Life isn’t long enough for love and art.
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When you’re eighteen your emotions are violent, but they’re not durable.
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I’d sooner be smashed into a mangled pulp by a bus when we cross the street than look forward to a life like yours.
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It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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