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I know now that all they had was the natural creativity of youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons .
I know now that all they had was the natural creativity of youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons .
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It is doubtless a harmless occupa- tion , but they are wrong if they think it an intelligent one . xxvi In my youth , when my instinctive feeling about a book differed from that of authoritative critics I did not hesitate to conclude ...
It is doubtless a harmless occupa- tion , but they are wrong if they think it an intelligent one . xxvi In my youth , when my instinctive feeling about a book differed from that of authoritative critics I did not hesitate to conclude ...
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long . In old age the taste improves and it is possible to enjoy art and literature without the personal bias that in youth warps the judgment .
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long . In old age the taste improves and it is possible to enjoy art and literature without the personal bias that in youth warps the judgment .
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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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