"A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident."

-- W. Somerset Maugham

#Writing Quotes #Effort Quotes #Style Quotes

“Because my father was a psychiatric nurse, I know my way around the system.”
“Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that does not mean conformity. We are more than a melting pot, we are a kaleidoscope, where every turn of history refracts new light on the old promise.”
“There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.”
“The same fact that Boccaccio offers in support of religion might be adduced in behalf of a republic: "It exists in spite of its ministers.”
“Many common problems are caused by wrong attitudes. People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them. Naturally you won't be happy that way. You can only be happy when you see things in proper perspective: all human beings are of equal importance in God's sight, and have a job to do in the divine plan.”
“I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.”
“If there is no dull and determined effort, there will be no brilliant achievement.”
“We do not read to pass the time, but to inhabit time.”

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