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We do not write as we want, but as we can.
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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Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
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So long as some are strong and some are weak, the weak will be driven to the wall.
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
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Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
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We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.
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Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.
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I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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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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Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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