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In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have
chiefly interested me during the course of my life. But such conclusions as I have
come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ship on a ...
In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have
chiefly interested me during the course of my life. But such conclusions as I have
come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ship on a ...
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William Somerset Maugham. against which the author must be always on his
guard, is that there is a sort of magic in the written word. The idea acquires
substance by taking on a visible nature, and then stands in the way of its own
clarification.
William Somerset Maugham. against which the author must be always on his
guard, is that there is a sort of magic in the written word. The idea acquires
substance by taking on a visible nature, and then stands in the way of its own
clarification.
Page 123
It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective. But I
think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims: stick to the point and
whenever you can, cut. The first of these demands a logical mind. Few of us have
it.
It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective. But I
think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims: stick to the point and
whenever you can, cut. The first of these demands a logical mind. Few of us have
it.
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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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