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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William Somerset Maugham. Maugham tended to see people as elements in a pattern , and when he glimpsed , or could invent , a pattern in the lives he observed or encount- ered , he had a story . One of his notes , for example , describes ...
William Somerset Maugham. Maugham tended to see people as elements in a pattern , and when he glimpsed , or could invent , a pattern in the lives he observed or encount- ered , he had a story . One of his notes , for example , describes ...
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... pattern is im- posed . Life itself has forced it on them . There is no reason why such a pattern should not be as com- plete as that which anyone has tried self - consciously to make . But the artist is in a privileged position . I use ...
... pattern is im- posed . Life itself has forced it on them . There is no reason why such a pattern should not be as com- plete as that which anyone has tried self - consciously to make . But the artist is in a privileged position . I use ...
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... pattern is predetermined . It is only the artist , and maybe the criminal , who can make his own . Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me , when still so young , to design a pattern for my life ; perhaps it was due ...
... pattern is predetermined . It is only the artist , and maybe the criminal , who can make his own . Perhaps it was a natural sense of tidiness that engaged me , when still so young , to design a pattern for my life ; perhaps it was due ...
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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
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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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