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Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
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 am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.
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A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.
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