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 164
... success than Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I was ambitious . I had a feeling , I do not know where I got it , that you must not pursue a success , but fly from it ; and I had learnt from the French to set no ...
... success than Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I was ambitious . I had a feeling , I do not know where I got it , that you must not pursue a success , but fly from it ; and I had learnt from the French to set no ...
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... success spoils people by making them vain , egotistic and self - complacent is erroneous ; on the contrary it makes them , for the most part , humble , tolerant and kind . Failure makes people bitter and cruel . Success improves the ...
... success spoils people by making them vain , egotistic and self - complacent is erroneous ; on the contrary it makes them , for the most part , humble , tolerant and kind . Failure makes people bitter and cruel . Success improves the ...
Page 183
... success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters a new world . He is made much of . He must be almost super - human ...
... success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters a new world . He is made much of . He must be almost super - human ...
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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
Bibliographic information
| 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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