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«The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.»
«Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Perfection
| Keywords:
apt, defect
«Have common sense and stick to the point.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Common sense
| Keywords:
common sense, stick, stick to, the point, to the point
«You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences»
«The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice»
«The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.»
«There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
bewail, bewailed, bewailing, childish, The Order
«The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties»
«You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Humor
| Keywords:
tolerance
«A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Marriage,
Men
| Keywords:
bothered, marries, Sex and
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