Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.W. Somerset Maugham
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
W. Somerset Maugham
It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity the clichTs that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters, the well-worn situations, the commonplace story that excites your derision, seem neither hackneyed, well worn nor commonplace to him. The conclusion is obvious you cannot write anything that will convince unless you are yourself convinced. The best seller sells because he writes with his heart's blood.
W. Somerset Maugham
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