There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMIf forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care?
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
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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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I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of.
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It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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She loved three things – a joke, a glass of wine, and a handsome man.
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