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She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.	William Somerset Maugham
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.	William Somerset Maugham
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.	William Somerset Maugham
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.	William Somerset Maugham
The trouble with our younger authors is that they are all in the sixties.	William Somerset Maugham
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.	William Somerset Maugham
There is nothing so degrading, as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood.	William Somerset Maugham
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.	William Somerset Maugham
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.	William Somerset Maugham
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.	William Somerset Maugham
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.	William Somerset Maugham
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.	William Somerset Maugham
When things are at their worst I find something always happens.	William Somerset Maugham
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.	William Somerset Maugham