More from William Somerset Maugham

  1. The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
  2. The crown of literature is poetry.
  3. No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoye…
  4. It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
  5. When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
  6. We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
  7. Tolerance is another word for indifference.
  8. There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

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