Famous quotes containing the words powell and/or wrote:
“Growing olds like being increasingly penalized for a crime you havent committed.”
—Anthony Powell (b. 1905)
“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)