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 134
... reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the an- swer is that there is no reason at all , if he can ...
... reason why they should be less interesting ; and if by the time the play has run its course they are out of date , what of it ? The play is dead anyway . Now to this question the an- swer is that there is no reason at all , if he can ...
Page 243
... reasons in the struggle for existence , the sum total of it , something that is essen- tial to the well - being of man in ... reason- able theories about the universe and man's place in it , the mystery of evil and the meaning of reality ...
... reasons in the struggle for existence , the sum total of it , something that is essen- tial to the well - being of man in ... reason- able theories about the universe and man's place in it , the mystery of evil and the meaning of reality ...
Page 309
... reason would have no truck with . In de- fault of anything better it has seemed to me some- times that I might pretend to myself that the good- ness I have not so seldom after all come across in many of those I have encountered on my ...
... reason would have no truck with . In de- fault of anything better it has seemed to me some- times that I might pretend to myself that the good- ness I have not so seldom after all come across in many of those I have encountered on my ...
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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