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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

~W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

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We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

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It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: January 25th, 1874

Died: December 16th, 1965

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