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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I ceased to travel because I felt that travel could give me nothing more . I was capable of no new development . I had sloughed the arrogance of culture . My mood was complete acceptance . I asked from nobody more than he could give me ...
I ceased to travel because I felt that travel could give me nothing more . I was capable of no new development . I had sloughed the arrogance of culture . My mood was complete acceptance . I asked from nobody more than he could give me ...
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The author seldom has the wish to give offence 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 livelihood , situates them perhaps in a ...
The author seldom has the wish to give offence 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 livelihood , situates them perhaps in a ...
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To aim at them for their own sake has seemed to 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 ...
To aim at them for their own sake has seemed to 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 ...
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| 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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