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Words have weight, sound and appearance it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
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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Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
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Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
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A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.
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It does the heart good to look at you.
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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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When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
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It is dangerous to let the public behind the scenes. They are easily disillusioned and then they are angry with you, for it was the illusion they loved.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
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A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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I knew that suffering did not enoble it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
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It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.
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The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
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Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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