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Page 43
They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent
on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at
every other step. A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written
should ...
They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent
on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at
every other step. A good style should show no sign of effort. What is written
should ...
Page 141
For the drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect. That
willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it. The
importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest, but to the dramatist
truth is ...
For the drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect. That
willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it. The
importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest, but to the dramatist
truth is ...
Page 270
There is no reason to believe that what you desire exists, but it is a hard saying
that you have no right to believe what you cannot prove; there is no reason why
you should not believe so long as you are aware that your belief lacks proof.
There is no reason to believe that what you desire exists, but it is a hard saying
that you have no right to believe what you cannot prove; there is no reason why
you should not believe so long as you are aware that your belief lacks proof.
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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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