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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
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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Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.
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An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
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When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The Almighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches make out.
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Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.
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Now it is a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. If you utterly decline to make do with what you can get, then somehow or other, you are very likely to get what you want.
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
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A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.
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The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice
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Evil is a necessary part of the order of the universe.
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There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.
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