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The writer and the actor represent emotions they do not , at the moment at all events , feel ; and standing with one side of themselves outside life portray it for the satisfaction of their creative instincts . Make - believe is their ...
The writer and the actor represent emotions they do not , at the moment at all events , feel ; and standing with one side of themselves outside life portray it for the satisfaction of their creative instincts . Make - believe is their ...
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... the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deep - rooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from instincts ; and out of them make a system 226 THE SUMMING UP.
... the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deep - rooted prejudices , the prejudices that are so intimate a part of one that they can hardly be distinguished from instincts ; and out of them make a system 226 THE SUMMING UP.
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It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , like hunger and sex , and at the same time to endow it with a specific quality that flatters the ...
It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct : the term seems to give it a place among the mainsprings of the human being , like hunger and sex , and at the same time to endow it with a specific quality that flatters the ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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