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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... difficult part of my work , to instill into the natives the sense of sin . And sometimes it brings off extraordinary , shifting combinations of de- nunciation and tribute , subtle praise and sharp blame : Hypocrisy is the most difficult ...
... difficult part of my work , to instill into the natives the sense of sin . And sometimes it brings off extraordinary , shifting combinations of de- nunciation and tribute , subtle praise and sharp blame : Hypocrisy is the most difficult ...
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... difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the neces- sary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than ...
... difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that they were but the neces- sary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than ...
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... difficult to forgive other people their sins . When you put yourself into their shoes it is generally easy to see what has caused them to do things they should not have done and excuses can be found for them . There is a natural ...
... difficult to forgive other people their sins . When you put yourself into their shoes it is generally easy to see what has caused them to do things they should not have done and excuses can be found for them . There is a natural ...
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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
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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