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 87
... picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to ...
... picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields . There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to ...
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... picture of life in the novels of Anthony Trollope than in those of Charles Dickens . Ixii Sometimes the writer must ask himself whether what he has written has any value except to himself and the question is perhaps urgent now when the ...
... picture of life in the novels of Anthony Trollope than in those of Charles Dickens . Ixii Sometimes the writer must ask himself whether what he has written has any value except to himself and the question is perhaps urgent now when the ...
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... picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena that they know . Reality is merely the hypothesis they have suggested as its oc- casion . It may be that they might ...
... picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena that they know . Reality is merely the hypothesis they have suggested as its oc- casion . It may be that they might ...
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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