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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... conscious that this is the case . There is nothing more beautiful than goodness and it has pleased me very often to show how much of it there is in persons who by common standards would be relentlessly con- demned . I have shown it ...
... conscious that this is the case . There is nothing more beautiful than goodness and it has pleased me very often to show how much of it there is in persons who by common standards would be relentlessly con- demned . I have shown it ...
Page 143
... aid verse , dancing , music and pageantry so that he might appeal to all possible sources of enter- tainment ; but I am conscious that here again the cinema with its great resources can do better what- ever [ 143 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... aid verse , dancing , music and pageantry so that he might appeal to all possible sources of enter- tainment ; but I am conscious that here again the cinema with its great resources can do better what- ever [ 143 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... conscious- ness , once divorced from the body , into the general consciousness , it is only possible to refuse the name of God to this general consciousness if you deny that it has either efficacy or value . And practically , as we know ...
... conscious- ness , once divorced from the body , into the general consciousness , it is only possible to refuse the name of God to this general consciousness if you deny that it has either efficacy or value . And practically , as we know ...
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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 effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage 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