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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... excited my fancy , that I had no time to reflect . The experience of the moment was so vivid that I could not attune my mind to introspection . I have been held back also by the irksomeness of setting down my thoughts in my own person ...
... excited my fancy , that I had no time to reflect . The experience of the moment was so vivid that I could not attune my mind to introspection . I have been held back also by the irksomeness of setting down my thoughts in my own person ...
Page 63
... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
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... excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham ...
... excited by emotion . I have hazarded the opinion that if you classified the members of an audience from A to Z , starting , say , with the critic of The Times and ending with the girl who sells sweet - stuffs in a shop off the Tottenham ...
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