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Sometimes he fills you with horror; sometimes he is entirely sympathetic; but he
has an inner coherence, so that though you often shudder you accept. But it was
long before Stendhal's example bore fruit. Balzac, with all his genius, drew his ...
Sometimes he fills you with horror; sometimes he is entirely sympathetic; but he
has an inner coherence, so that though you often shudder you accept. But it was
long before Stendhal's example bore fruit. Balzac, with all his genius, drew his ...
Page 280
In other places I have spoken as though I accepted determinism. Such shilly-
shallying would have been ... I pointed out earlier in these pages how unwilling
an audience is to accept impulse on the stage. Now an impulse is merely an urge
to ...
In other places I have spoken as though I accepted determinism. Such shilly-
shallying would have been ... I pointed out earlier in these pages how unwilling
an audience is to accept impulse on the stage. Now an impulse is merely an urge
to ...
Page 304
And little as I like the deduction, I cannot but accept it; and this is that the work of
art must be judged by its fruits, and if these are not good it is valueless. It is an
odd fact, which must be accepted as in the nature of things and for which I know
no ...
And little as I like the deduction, I cannot but accept it; and this is that the work of
art must be judged by its fruits, and if these are not good it is valueless. It is an
odd fact, which must be accepted as in the nature of things and for which I know
no ...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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