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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... suggested that I should write : the statue will stand . I had not done that because my ear was offended by the alliteration . I noticed also that he had a feeling that words should be used not only to balance a sentence but to balance ...
... suggested that I should write : the statue will stand . I had not done that because my ear was offended by the alliteration . I noticed also that he had a feeling that words should be used not only to balance a sentence but to balance ...
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... suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was commonplace , my vocabulary limited , my grammar shaky and my phrases hackneyed . But to write was an instinct that seemed [ 23 ] help. An actor will sometimes say to an author...
... suggested a sense of the theatre . My language was commonplace , my vocabulary limited , my grammar shaky and my phrases hackneyed . But to write was an instinct that seemed [ 23 ] help. An actor will sometimes say to an author...
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... suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It would remind him that he was a man like any other . I HAVE been called cynical . I have been accused [ 57 ] E.
... suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It would remind him that he was a man like any other . I HAVE been called cynical . I have been accused [ 57 ] E.
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accept action actors admire æsthetic 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