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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Page 80
... never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me and I ...
... never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me and I ...
Page 104
... never got farther than being able to read the plays of Chekov and have long since forgotten the little I knew . I ... never learn to speak the language of another country to perfection ; you will never know its people and its literature ...
... never got farther than being able to read the plays of Chekov and have long since forgotten the little I knew . I ... never learn to speak the language of another country to perfection ; you will never know its people and its literature ...
Page 106
... never ceased to find the theatrical gossip of the day absorbing . They loved the theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease - paint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under ...
... never ceased to find the theatrical gossip of the day absorbing . They loved the theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease - paint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under ...
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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