W. Somerset Maugham

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Tolerance is another word for indifference. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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