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Page 51
I do not find the present unsatisfactory; I merely take it for granted. It is interwoven
in the pattern and what interests me is what remains to come. I have made a
great many mistakes. I have at times fallen victim to a snare to which the writer is
...
I do not find the present unsatisfactory; I merely take it for granted. It is interwoven
in the pattern and what interests me is what remains to come. I have made a
great many mistakes. I have at times fallen victim to a snare to which the writer is
...
Page 95
All the power of the artist's mind must be set to work on it, all his technical skill, all
his experience, and whatever he has in him of character and individuality, so that
with infinite pains he may present it with the completeness that is fitting to it.
All the power of the artist's mind must be set to work on it, all his technical skill, all
his experience, and whatever he has in him of character and individuality, so that
with infinite pains he may present it with the completeness that is fitting to it.
Page 99
I was much more ignorant than are, it seems to me, young men of that age at the
present day. I settled down in Seville. I grew a moustache, smoked Filipino cigars
, learnt the guitar, bought a broad-brimmed hat with [99] THE SUMMING UP.
I was much more ignorant than are, it seems to me, young men of that age at the
present day. I settled down in Seville. I grew a moustache, smoked Filipino cigars
, learnt the guitar, bought a broad-brimmed hat with [99] THE SUMMING UP.
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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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