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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... existence . He has just enough money to last him until he is sixty , and then he intends to take his own life . " Don't you think after twenty - five years of perfect happiness one ought to be satisfied to call it a day ? " he asks ...
... existence . He has just enough money to last him until he is sixty , and then he intends to take his own life . " Don't you think after twenty - five years of perfect happiness one ought to be satisfied to call it a day ? " he asks ...
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... existence and discovered nothing but van- ity . Having gradually wasted his small fortune , he preferred to live on the generosity of others rather than work , and often he found it difficult to make both ends meet . His self ...
... existence and discovered nothing but van- ity . Having gradually wasted his small fortune , he preferred to live on the generosity of others rather than work , and often he found it difficult to make both ends meet . His self ...
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... existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the brilliant balls and the week - end parties at country houses ; the company of clever and brilliant people , writers , painters , actors ...
... existence it had brought me ; the social round , the grand dinners at the houses of the great , the brilliant balls and the week - end parties at country houses ; the company of clever and brilliant people , writers , painters , actors ...
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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