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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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Impropriety is the soul of wit.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Impropriety Soul Wit
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Insight Judge Mature Seldom Suspect Ummercifully Very Yet Young
They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
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Beautiful Call Dog Dress Face Recognise Sermon
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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Appearance Consider Good Listen Look Only Sentence Sound Weight Word
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
It’s no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Kindness People Right Show Take Young
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Beauty Carelessly Feel Force Lighty Lose One People Stand Talk Thing Use Word
I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?
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All Another Hand Inevitably Made Moment None Person Place Recognize Several Upper
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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Bering Girl Made Make Mistake Want
Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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Dullness First Good Husband Reyuiste
It wasn’t until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, ‘I don’t know.’
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Discover Easy Know Late Say Until
Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.
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Bear Bitter Could Dreadfully Indifference Love Made Mind Mistake Saw Tragedy Women
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
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No Nothing Pursuit Talent Terrible Those
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?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Allow Any Illusion Ask Keep Other Them
It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Accept Best Funny Get Life Often Refuse Thing

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