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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... important to me and it is about myself because I can only treat of these subjects as they have affected me . But it ... importance than they had in his life . There were events among a multitude of others , virtuous or at least neutral ...
... important to me and it is about myself because I can only treat of these subjects as they have affected me . But it ... importance than they had in his life . There were events among a multitude of others , virtuous or at least neutral ...
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... important to the nine- teenth century have lost their interest , and artists do not yet see what the great issues ... importance to my work . In the drama I have found myself at home in the traditional moulds . As a writer of fiction I ...
... important to the nine- teenth century have lost their interest , and artists do not yet see what the great issues ... importance to my work . In the drama I have found myself at home in the traditional moulds . As a writer of fiction I ...
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... important than my mind , the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deep- rooted prejudices , the prejudices that ... importance but which seemed to me in my darkness very trivial ; and the manner in which they were handled , the ...
... important than my mind , the whole body of my instincts , feelings and deep- rooted prejudices , the prejudices that ... importance but which seemed to me in my darkness very trivial ; and the manner in which they were handled , the ...
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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