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Success . It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a
long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare
to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determination to avoid its perils .
Success . It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a
long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare
to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determination to avoid its perils .
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world ; it must be very stubborn if it is not modified by the softening influences of
success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it
may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters
...
world ; it must be very stubborn if it is not modified by the softening influences of
success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it
may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters
...
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li my mother When , having achieved success as a dramatist , I determined to
devote the rest of my life to playwriting I reckoned without my host . I was happy , I
was prosperous , I was busy , my head was full of plays that I wanted to write ; I
do ...
li my mother When , having achieved success as a dramatist , I determined to
devote the rest of my life to playwriting I reckoned without my host . I was happy , I
was prosperous , I was busy , my head was full of plays that I wanted to write ; I
do ...
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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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