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 129
We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would
be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps
even because the teaching of Christ has [ 129 ] THE SUMMING UP.
We are less revengeful than we were and now a play devoted to revenge would
be scarcely plausible . Perhaps because our passions are less strong , perhaps
even because the teaching of Christ has [ 129 ] THE SUMMING UP.
Page 134
There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the
play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway .
Now to this question the answer is that there is no reason at all , if he can get
away ...
There is no reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the
play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway .
Now to this question the answer is that there is no reason at all , if he can get
away ...
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It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that
they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and
the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in ...
It would be less difficult to bear the evils of one's own life if one could think that
they were but the necessary outcome of one's errors in a previous existence , and
the effort to do better would be less difficult too when there was the hope than in ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Works 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 |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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