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W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: playwright
Nationality: british
Birth: January 25, 1874 - December 16, 1965

Topics

Step Poet Only Writer Prose Passes

There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.

Politics Name Poor Politicians Get

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

Growth Free Globalization Lead Trade

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

Life Humor Best Looking View Any

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

Amitabh Bachchan

Great War Body Through Been Zone

The strength of fiction is not in reading about yourself, but in reading about other people.

Strength Yourself People Reading

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Beauty Time Death Horror Out Takes

It did occur to me that certainly African-Americans are not underserved in picture books, but those books are almost all about specifically black experiences.

Chris Van Allsburg

Me Black Picture Experiences Almost

I served four years in the Air Force in South Korea, and my brother, Aaron, served in the Army there, too, on the DMZ.

Brother Army Air Force Air Years

I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand.

Alice Temperley

Parents Brand Heritage Always Up

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

Work Live Soul Suffering Theatre TV

In 1900, 180-plus out of every 1,000 African-American babies died.

Peter Diamandis

African-American Out Babies Every

I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But I still put in 40 hours a week running Colorado.

Life Quality Week Colorado Over

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