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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... hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
... hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior ... hand and that their verses and their music owed more to a retentive memory than to a lively imagination . The point ...
Page 104
... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half- a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
... hands from the first lifeless reading of the typescript to some- thing like the character that I have seen in my mind's ... hand . But the consummation is the dress rehearsal . There are half- a - dozen people in the front - row of the ...
Page 131
... hand ? The only ideas that can affect them when they are welded together in that unity which is an audience , are those commonplace , fundamental ideas that are almost feelings . These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and ...
... hand ? The only ideas that can affect them when they are welded together in that unity which is an audience , are those commonplace , fundamental ideas that are almost feelings . These , the root ideas of poetry , are love , death and ...
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