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William Somerset Maugham. less partial , for naturally I have seen men through
my own idiosyncrasies . A buoyant , optimistic , healthy and sentimental person
would have seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen
...
William Somerset Maugham. less partial , for naturally I have seen men through
my own idiosyncrasies . A buoyant , optimistic , healthy and sentimental person
would have seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen
...
Page 145
A good actor , bringing to a part his own talent , often gives it a value that the
layman on reading the play had not seen in it , but at the utmost he can do no
more than reach the ideal that the author has seen in his mind's eye . He has to
be an ...
A good actor , bringing to a part his own talent , often gives it a value that the
layman on reading the play had not seen in it , but at the utmost he can do no
more than reach the ideal that the author has seen in his mind's eye . He has to
be an ...
Page 154
I had seen them pitifully writing their own plays over and over again without an
inkling that the times had changed ; I had seen others desperately attempting to
capture the modern spirit and dismayed when their [ 154 ] THE SUMMING UP.
I had seen them pitifully writing their own plays over and over again without an
inkling that the times had changed ; I had seen others desperately attempting to
capture the modern spirit and dismayed when their [ 154 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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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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