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Seem Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
- A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
- The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
- I was a stray acquaintance whom he had never seem before and would never see again, a wandered for a moment through his monotonous life,…
- 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…
- Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though…
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