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Do you like card tricks? No, I hate card tricks, I answered. Well, I`ll just show you this one. He showed me three.
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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I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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The life force is vigorous. The delight that accompanies it counter-balances all the pains and hardships that confront men. It makes life worth living.
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The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
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A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
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When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
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Look after your laundry, and your soul will look after itself.
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There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
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There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.
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We do not write as we want, but as we can.
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There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment.
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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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Dullness is the first requisite of a good husband.
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I like manual labor. Whenever I've got waterlogged with study, I've taken a spell of it and found it spiritually invigorating.
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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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