The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... appearance of an immensely long telegram in which for econo- my's sake you had left out every word that was not necessary to make the sense clear . I have not read it since I corrected the proofs and do not know how near I came to doing ...
... appearance of an immensely long telegram in which for econo- my's sake you had left out every word that was not necessary to make the sense clear . I have not read it since I corrected the proofs and do not know how near I came to doing ...
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... appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays ...
... appearance increases the expectation . No one followed this prac- tice more scrupulously than that very competent dramatist William Shakespeare . It is the difficulty of directing the interest that makes it so hard to write the plays ...
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... appearance . The physical traits of a man influence his character and contrariwise his character is expressed , at least in the rough , in his appearance . You cannot make a tall man short and otherwise keep him the same . A man's ...
... appearance . The physical traits of a man influence his character and contrariwise his character is expressed , at least in the rough , in his appearance . You cannot make a tall man short and otherwise keep him the same . A man's ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic amusing appearance artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas imagination instinct interest invention King's School knew Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold Maugham means mind ness never notion novel novelist one's Painted Veil pattern perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense short stories SOMERSET MAUGHAM sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth V. S. Pritchett verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth