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The best style is the style you don't notice.
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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Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.
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Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
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Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.
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A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
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Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us but as the result of innumerable rebuffs.
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The good traveler has the gift of surprise.
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Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
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She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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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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Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.
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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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To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.
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I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
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The nature of men and women - their essential nature - is so vile and despicable that if you were to portray a person as he really is, no one would believe you.
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We do not write because we want to we write because we have to.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.
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