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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.

W. Somerset Maugham

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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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Brief Contemptuously Heard Money People Speak Wonder Wonderful
An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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Bad Easier Good Habit One Thing Unfortunate
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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Anyone Belief Broadcast Hardly Horror Large Life Own Sexual Surprise World
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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Bent Cry Force Milk Over Spill Spilt Universe Use
The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
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Age Complete Include Maturity Old Pattern Perfect Young
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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Come Democracy Down Invent Persuasive Politician Power Seek Self Slogan
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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Best Mediocre Only
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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Acquire Class Culture Enter Government Grant Men More Percent Portrait Rather Scene Sixty Today Told University
We who are of mature age seldom suspect how unmercifully and yet with what insight the very young judge us.
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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
Now the answer … is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for life and life has no meaning.
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Answer Face Life Meaning Men Most Plain Reason Unpalatable
You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Alley Blind Down Lead Lot One Time Waste You
It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
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Acquire Hard Work Knowledge Nuisance Only
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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Comfortable Conduct Frame Humorous Imagine Mind More Resignation
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly?
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Beauty Careless Ebach Lie Like Mood Precious Should Stone Thing Think World
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

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