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 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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There are two good things in life – freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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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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Love is what happens to men and women who don’t know each other.
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There’s always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.
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The mystic sees the ineffable, and the psychopathologist the unspeakable.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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We seek pitifully to convey to others the treasures of our heart, but they have not the power to accept them, and so we go lonely, side by side but not together, unable to know our fellows and unknown by them.
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I don’t think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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We must be very humble. We must see the beauty of quietness. We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us. And let us seek the love of simple, ignorant people. Their ignorance is better than all our knowledge.
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