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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... natural trust in others . I am more inclined to expect them to do ill than to do good . That is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ...
... natural trust in others . I am more inclined to expect them to do ill than to do good . That is the price one has to pay for having a sense of humour . A sense of humour leads you to take pleasure in the discrepancies of human nature ...
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... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with com- placency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be ...
... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with com- placency to Voltaire's Candide . It would be ...
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William Somerset Maugham. Then art can only gain new vigour by forcing on nature a new convention . But that is by the way . It is a natural desire in the reader to want to know what happens to the people in whom his interest has been ...
William Somerset Maugham. Then art can only gain new vigour by forcing on nature a new convention . But that is by the way . It is a natural desire in the reader to want to know what happens to the people in whom his interest has been ...
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