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  • A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsense, and the facts he is most likely to get right are the facts of his own experience.

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  • From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

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    Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)
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W. Somerset Maugham

  • Born: January 25, 1874
  • Died: December 16, 1965
  • Occupation: Playwright
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