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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Page 93
... tell you . xxvii Young persons , who are anxious to write , some- times pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
... tell you . xxvii Young persons , who are anxious to write , some- times pay me the compliment of asking me to tell them of certain books necessary for them to read . I do . They seldom read them , for they seem to have little curiosity ...
Page 99
... tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another ...
... tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another ...
Page 219
... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my mis- fortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
... tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my mis- fortune that for some time now a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books on the art of ...
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