Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece…

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. ✨ A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 196), 1949.
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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. ✨ A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham, Country Life Press, (p. 196), 1949.

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