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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Page 206
... give me nothing more . I was capable of no new development . I had sloughed the arrogance of culture . My mood was complete ac- ceptance . I asked from nobody more than he could give me . I had learnt toleration . I was pleased with the ...
... give me nothing more . I was capable of no new development . I had sloughed the arrogance of culture . My mood was complete ac- ceptance . I asked from nobody more than he could give me . I had learnt toleration . I was pleased with the ...
Page 215
William Somerset Maugham. merits . The author seldom has the wish to give of- fence and he uses what means he can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different places , gives them another means of liveli ...
William Somerset Maugham. merits . The author seldom has the wish to give of- fence and he uses what means he can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different places , gives them another means of liveli ...
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... give life some kind of sense . Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the illusion that through them he escapes from human ...
... give life some kind of sense . Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of disinterestedness which gives man the illusion that through them he escapes from human ...
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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