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 78
... never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me and I ...
... never even sung a hymn . I do not much like being touched and I have always to make a slight effort over myself not to draw away when someone links his arm in mine . I can never forget myself . The hysteria of the world repels me and I ...
Page 101
... never learn to speak the language of an- other country to perfection ; you will never know its people and its literature with complete intimacy . For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the ...
... never learn to speak the language of an- other country to perfection ; you will never know its people and its literature with complete intimacy . For they , and the literature which is their expression , are wrought , not only of the ...
Page 103
... never ceased to find the theatrical gossip of the day absorbing . They loved the theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under ...
... never ceased to find the theatrical gossip of the day absorbing . They loved the theatre and everything connected with it . They had grease- paint in their bones . I have never been like that . I like a theatre best when it is under ...
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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