If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

William Somerset Maugham (1874 CE-1965 CE), William Somerset Maugham was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university. He became a medical student in London and qualified as a physician in 1897. He never practised medicine, and became a full-time writer.