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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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 encountered , he had a story . One of his notes , for example , describes a successful and much ...
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 encountered , he had a story . One of his notes , for example , describes a successful and much ...
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... a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is imposed . Life itself has forced it on them . There is no reason why such a pattern ...
... a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is imposed . Life itself has forced it on them . There is no reason why such a pattern ...
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The 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 ...
The 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 ...
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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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