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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
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The inclination to digress is human. But the dramatist must avoid it even more strenuously than the saint must avoid sin, for while sin may be venial, digression is mortal.
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Tolerance is only another name for indifference.
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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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When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.
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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.
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It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
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It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
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Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
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The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
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The author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
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The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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It does the heart good to look at you.
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