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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... believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step . A good style should show no sign of effort . What is written should seem a happy accident . I think no one in ...
... believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step . A good style should show no sign of effort . What is written should seem a happy accident . I think no one in ...
Page 110
... believe is their reality they can look upon reality as make - believe . xxxii I began to write plays , as do most young writers , I expect , because it seemed less difficult to set down on paper the things people said than to construct ...
... believe is their reality they can look upon reality as make - believe . xxxii I began to write plays , as do most young writers , I expect , because it seemed less difficult to set down on paper the things people said than to construct ...
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... believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he has found her handkerchief in somebody else's possession , well and good , that is sufficient motive for his jealousy ; if they will believe that a six ...
... believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he has found her handkerchief in somebody else's possession , well and good , that is sufficient motive for his jealousy ; if they will believe that a six ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic 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