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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... follow both in the trappings of a play and in its themes . The invention of the telephone , for instance , has made many scenes redundant , has quickened the pace of plays and has made it possible to avoid certain improbabilities ...
... follow both in the trappings of a play and in its themes . The invention of the telephone , for instance , has made many scenes redundant , has quickened the pace of plays and has made it possible to avoid certain improbabilities ...
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... follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner . By the time I was twenty - four I had ... follows : a young king of the East , anxious on his ascent of the throne to rule his kingdom justly , sent for the ...
... follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner . By the time I was twenty - four I had ... follows : a young king of the East , anxious on his ascent of the throne to rule his kingdom justly , sent for the ...
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William Somerset Maugham. To follow it does not look so difficult that human weakness quails before it as beyond its strength . With it I can end my book . The beauty of life , he says , is nothing but this , that each should act in ...
William Somerset Maugham. To follow it does not look so difficult that human weakness quails before it as beyond its strength . With it I can end my book . The beauty of life , he says , is nothing but this , that each should act in ...
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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