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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... least to my taste ) is less happy . When a modern writer is grandiloquent to tell you whether or no a little trollop shall hop into bed with a com- monplace young man you are right to be disgusted . But if richness needs gifts with ...
... least to my taste ) is less happy . When a modern writer is grandiloquent to tell you whether or no a little trollop shall hop into bed with a com- monplace young man you are right to be disgusted . But if richness needs gifts with ...
Page 82
... least a reada- ble story about him . It is pleasant to have so many stories in mind that whatever your mood you have one upon which , for an hour or two , for a week or so , you can let your fancy linger . Reverie is the groundwork of ...
... least a reada- ble story about him . It is pleasant to have so many stories in mind that whatever your mood you have one upon which , for an hour or two , for a week or so , you can let your fancy linger . Reverie is the groundwork of ...
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... least resistance or the strongest motive . I am not conscious that I have always followed the line of least resistance , and if I have followed the strongest motive that motive has been an idea of myself that I have gradually evolved ...
... least resistance or the strongest motive . I am not conscious that I have always followed the line of least resistance , and if I have followed the strongest motive that motive has been an idea of myself that I have gradually evolved ...
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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