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 52
... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked forward to , my imagination in the very moment of fulfilment has been busy with the problematical ...
... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked forward to , my imagination in the very moment of fulfilment has been busy with the problematical ...
Page 163
... passing fame . I might have been satisfied . But there was one thing more I wanted to achieve and this it seemed to me I could not hope to reach in the drama . Perfection . I looked not at my own plays , of whose faults no one could be ...
... passing fame . I might have been satisfied . But there was one thing more I wanted to achieve and this it seemed to me I could not hope to reach in the drama . Perfection . I looked not at my own plays , of whose faults no one could be ...
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... passing interest . Thinking that not the whole of life was long enough to learn to write well , I have been unwilling to give to other activities time that I so much needed to achieve the purpose I had in mind . I have never been able ...
... passing interest . Thinking that not the whole of life was long enough to learn to write well , I have been unwilling to give to other activities time that I so much needed to achieve the purpose I had in mind . I have never been able ...
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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