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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Who has not seen the scholar's thinlipped smile when he corrects a misquotation and the connoisseur's pained look when someone praises a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in ...
Who has not seen the scholar's thinlipped smile when he corrects a misquotation and the connoisseur's pained look when someone praises a picture he does not care for ? There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in ...
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powerful his individuality , the more fantastic is the picture of life he draws . It has sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has ...
powerful his individuality , the more fantastic is the picture of life he draws . It has sometimes seemed to me that if posterity wants to know what the world of today was like it will not go to those writers whose idiosyncrasy has ...
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Having to fit themselves , in the course of evolution , to a constantly changing environment , they have made a picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena ...
Having to fit themselves , in the course of evolution , to a constantly changing environment , they have made a picture from fragments that they took here and there because they suited their purposes . This is the world of phenomena ...
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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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