What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
W. Somerset MaughamIt has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.
W. Somerset MaughamThe author always loads his dice, but he must never let the reader see that he has done so, and by the manipulation of his plot, he can engage the reader's attention so that he does not perceive the violence that has been done to him.
W. Somerset Maugham