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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... perfect disguise , which kept the world away . Even the malice which many often - told stories attribute to him can be seen as part of a role he is playing . " Tra - la - la - la , " Maugham is supposed to have sung when he received the ...
... perfect disguise , which kept the world away . Even the malice which many often - told stories attribute to him can be seen as part of a role he is playing . " Tra - la - la - la , " Maugham is supposed to have sung when he received the ...
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... perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is ...
... perfect audience . After each act the director reads out the remarks he has jotted down . There is a row with the electrician who , with nothing to do but attend to his switches , has turned on the wrong ones ; and the author is ...
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... perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the begin- ning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories that I ...
... perfect theory ; it has but one defect ; it is unbelievable . When I cherished the ambition of writing a book on these matters , thinking I must start at the begin- ning , I studied epistemology . I found none of the theories that I ...
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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