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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 154
I grew tired of the absurdity that admits in conversation all manner of facts that
must be denied on the stage . I wearied of the ... In fact , I did not want to conform
any longer to the necessary conventions of the drama . I suspected that I was out
of ...
I grew tired of the absurdity that admits in conversation all manner of facts that
must be denied on the stage . I wearied of the ... In fact , I did not want to conform
any longer to the necessary conventions of the drama . I suspected that I was out
of ...
Page 246
In point of fact he was incredibly idle and left the work of his parish to his curate
and his churchwardens . But I was impressionable and soon became very
religious . I accepted what I was taught , both in my uncle's vicarage and
afterwards at ...
In point of fact he was incredibly idle and left the work of his parish to his curate
and his churchwardens . But I was impressionable and soon became very
religious . I accepted what I was taught , both in my uncle's vicarage and
afterwards at ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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