Famous quotes containing the words donne and/or wrote:
“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)
“Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that “Nobody is any better than he ought to be.”... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)