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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

- 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.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

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

The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

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