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It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men , and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected . It is this false picture that the writers I have spoken of take as their model and it is because ...
It is a picture that one fabricates of the average characteristics of men , and to find them all in a single man is hardly to be expected . It is this false picture that the writers I have spoken of take as their model and it is because ...
Page 152
I was myself living in several sets that had no connection with one another , and it occurred to me that it might give a truer picture of life if one could carry on at the same time the various stories , of equal importance , that were ...
I was myself living in several sets that had no connection with one another , and it occurred to me that it might give a truer picture of life if one could carry on at the same time the various stories , of equal importance , that were ...
Page 167
his love and hate , his deepest thoughts , his passing fancies , to draw in one work after another a picture of life . It can never be more than a partial one , but if he is fortunate he will succeed in the end in doing something else ...
his love and hate , his deepest thoughts , his passing fancies , to draw in one work after another a picture of life . It can never be more than a partial one , but if he is fortunate he will succeed in the end in doing something else ...
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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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