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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.
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 most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.
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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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No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.
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Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.
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Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.
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The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]
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Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
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The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
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When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
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The best style is the style you don't notice.
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Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material ... Don't wait for experience to come to you go out after experience. Experience is your material.
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Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
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You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.
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Art for art's sake makes no more sense than gin for gin's sake.
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I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.
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Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
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I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.
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