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 50
... persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that the persons of real life are creatures of im- pulse . It has been said that metaphysics is the find- ing of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct ; and it might be said ...
... persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that the persons of real life are creatures of im- pulse . It has been said that metaphysics is the find- ing of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct ; and it might be said ...
Page 124
... persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues . The astute dramatist presents ...
... persons whom the playwright introduces at the be- ginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the scene later , a sense of disappointment ensues . The astute dramatist presents ...
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... person when they had in mind someone quite different . Further , it is just chance whether the author chooses his models from persons with whom he is intimately connected or not . It is often enough for him to have caught a glimpse of ...
... person when they had in mind someone quite different . Further , it is just chance whether the author chooses his models from persons with whom he is intimately connected or not . It is often enough for him to have caught a glimpse of ...
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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 effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience feeling fiction forced French gave gift give Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage 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