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~ W. Somerset Maugham Quotes ~
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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes


An English playwright, novelist and short story writer.
William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and, reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.

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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

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Life isn't long enough for love and art.

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We do not write as we want but as we can.

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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

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To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.

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A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

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The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish but that they cease to love.

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Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.

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There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.

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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

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Beauty is an ecstacy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.