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Because

  • Writer: John Service
    John Service
  • Dec 22, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jan 30

"Why do nice women marry dull men?" I [the author] asked.

"Because intelligent men won't  marry nice women" [replied Rose Waterford], who combined a masculine intelligence with a feminine perversity and the novels she wrote were original and disconcerting

The Moon and Sixpence, Somerset Maugham, William Heineman Ltd, 1919

 
 
 

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