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William Somerset Maugham Quotes
«Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
advantageous, in writing
«It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.»
«Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.»
«I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
achieving, glaring, hindrance, hindrances, ignored
«The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Ideas,
Success
| Keywords:
complacent, egotistic, erroneous, for the most part, spoils
«My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
at large