There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAMTo recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination.
More W. Somerset Maugham Quotes
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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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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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one’s faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one’s memories.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers.
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It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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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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