The Summing UpThis book represents Maugham's life and philosophy in his own words. It is autobiographical in nature, though most of the work is concerned with Maugham's unique and fascinating opinions on the theatre, writing, metaphysics and the interesting people he encountered in his long and successful career. |
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Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can
hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts ,
even if I could remember them , of which I have already made a better use .
Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can
hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts ,
even if I could remember them , of which I have already made a better use .
Page 21
But the harshest stroke of all was her comment on what I thought was rather a
good joke : ' Are you sure of your facts ? ' Taking it all in all I am bound to
conclude that the professor at her college would not have given me very high
marks .
But the harshest stroke of all was her comment on what I thought was rather a
good joke : ' Are you sure of your facts ? ' Taking it all in all I am bound to
conclude that the professor at her college would not have given me very high
marks .
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The fact is that they are suspicious of form . They find in it a sort of airlessness ; its
constraint irks them ; they feel that when the author has fixed upon his material a
wilful shape life has slipped through his fingers . The French critic demands that ...
The fact is that they are suspicious of form . They find in it a sort of airlessness ; its
constraint irks them ; they feel that when the author has fixed upon his material a
wilful shape life has slipped through his fingers . The French critic demands that ...
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| Title | The Summing Up A Mentor book Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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