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Imagination grows by exercise.
W. Somerset Maugham
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W. Somerset Maugham
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: January 1
Died: 1965
Died: January 1
Army Scout
Literary Critic
Novelist
Physician Writer
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Paris
France
W. Somerset Maugham
Somerset Maugham
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Exercise
Imagination
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What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
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If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
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From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
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The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.
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The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
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When she liked anyone it was quite natural for her to go to bed with him. She never thought twice about it. It was not vice it wasn't lasciviousness it was her nature. She gave herself as naturally as the sun gives heat or the flowers their perfume. It was a pleasure to her and she liked to give pleasure to others.
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If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.
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You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
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Most people are such fools that it is really no great compliment to say that someone is above the average.
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A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
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The audience is not the least important actor in the play and if it will not do its allotted share the play falls to pieces.
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But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.
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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
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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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There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.
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