Quote #129

When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
  2. It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
  3. Tolerance is another word for indifference.
  4. No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoye…
  5. There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
  6. The crown of literature is poetry.
  7. The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
  8. The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

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