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 138
... reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the answer is that there is no reason at all , if he can get ...
... reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the answer is that there is no reason at all , if he can get ...
Page 276
... reason to believe that what you desire exists , but it is a hard saying that you have no right to believe what you cannot prove ; there is no reason why you should not believe so long as you are aware that your belief lacks proof . I ...
... reason to believe that what you desire exists , but it is a hard saying that you have no right to believe what you cannot prove ; there is no reason why you should not believe so long as you are aware that your belief lacks proof . I ...
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... reason would have no truck with . In default of anything better it has seemed to me sometimes that I might pretend to myself that the goodness I have not so seldom after all come across in many of those I have encountered on my way had ...
... reason would have no truck with . In default of anything better it has seemed to me sometimes that I might pretend to myself that the goodness I have not so seldom after all come across in many of those I have encountered on my way had ...
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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