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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... seemed to me that if I set them down in some sort of order I should see for myself more distinctly what they really were and so might get some kind of coherence into them . I have long thought I should like to make such an attempt and ...
... seemed to me that if I set them down in some sort of order I should see for myself more distinctly what they really were and so might get some kind of coherence into them . I have long thought I should like to make such an attempt and ...
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... seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed . I could put down in clear terms what I saw . I had a logical sense , and if no great feeling for the richness and strangeness of words , at all events a lively ...
... seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed . I could put down in clear terms what I saw . I had a logical sense , and if no great feeling for the richness and strangeness of words , at all events a lively ...
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... seemed possible the theatre could give me . I had made as much money as I needed to live in the sort of way that pleased me and to provide for such as had claims on me . I had won a great notoriety and perhaps even a passing fame . I ...
... seemed possible the theatre could give me . I had made as much money as I needed to live in the sort of way that pleased me and to provide for such as had claims on me . I had won a great notoriety and perhaps even a passing fame . 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 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