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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... live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of ...
... live haphazard lives subject to the varying winds of fortune . Many are forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of ...
Page 83
... live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown . He was then twenty - six . After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar , but he had a little money , enough to live on in those inexpensive days ...
... live with the same family in Heidelberg as I was living with . I will call him Brown . He was then twenty - six . After leaving Cambridge he was called to the bar , but he had a little money , enough to live on in those inexpensive days ...
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... live . I would not live my life over again . There would be no point in that . Nor would I care to pass again through the anguish I have suffered . It is one of the -faults of my nature that I have suffered more from the pains , than I ...
... live . I would not live my life over again . There would be no point in that . Nor would I care to pass again through the anguish I have suffered . It is one of the -faults of my nature that I have suffered more from the pains , than I ...
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