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No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has pre- vented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direc- tion of interest ; their disappointment with ...
No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has pre- vented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direc- tion of interest ; their disappointment with ...
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The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity ...
The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity ...
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But the gods never make any of their gifts without adding to it a drawback and this multiplicity of the writer that enables him , like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
But the gods never make any of their gifts without adding to it a drawback and this multiplicity of the writer that enables him , like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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