The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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... 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 turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is imposed ...
... 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 turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is imposed ...
Page 145
... forced to forgo asides because people do not naturally talk to themselves out loud ; he may not tele- scope events , by which he was able to accelerate his action , but must cause them to occur as deliberately [ 145 ]
... forced to forgo asides because people do not naturally talk to themselves out loud ; he may not tele- scope events , by which he was able to accelerate his action , but must cause them to occur as deliberately [ 145 ]
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... forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , however distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul together . It is forced upon him still in countries with a small reading ...
... forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , however distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul together . It is forced upon him still in countries with a small reading ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character Chekov comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew knowledge Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit Stendhal story success suppose talent tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth