More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. Tolerance is another word for indifference.
  2. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
  3. There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
  4. It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
  5. The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
  6. No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoye…
  7. Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
  8. The crown of literature is poetry.

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