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Written Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
- The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
- I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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