The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1This 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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Page 34
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
... attention to these , you cannot pay attention at all . Your mind wanders . This kind of writing demands a subject that will suit it . It is surely out of place to write in the grand style of inconsiderable things . No one wrote in this ...
Page 124
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
... attention of the audi- ence on them so that the delay in their appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of ...
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... attention so that he does not perceive what violence has been done him . I am not writing a technical treatise on the novel , so I need not enumerate the various devices that novelists have used to achieve this . But how effica- cious ...
... attention so that he does not perceive what violence has been done him . I am not writing a technical treatise on the novel , so I need not enumerate the various devices that novelists have used to achieve this . But how effica- cious ...
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