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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... truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It ...
... truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It ...
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William Somerset Maugham. truth that everyone could accept , but only a truth that agreed with the personality of the individual , the only thing for me was to narrow my search and look for some philosopher whose system suited me because ...
William Somerset Maugham. truth that everyone could accept , but only a truth that agreed with the personality of the individual , the only thing for me was to narrow my search and look for some philosopher whose system suited me because ...
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... truth to his vanity , comfort and advantage . He lives not by truth but by make - believe , and his idealism , it has sometimes seemed to me , is merely his effort to attach the prestige of truth to the fictions he has invented to ...
... truth to his vanity , comfort and advantage . He lives not by truth but by make - believe , and his idealism , it has sometimes seemed to me , is merely his effort to attach the prestige of truth to the fictions he has invented to ...
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