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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... true enough to shake our most cherished as- sumptions about our relations with the people we care about . Maugham was clear , even harsh , about his own limitations . He had some power of invention , he said , but only " small power of ...
... true enough to shake our most cherished as- sumptions about our relations with the people we care about . Maugham was clear , even harsh , about his own limitations . He had some power of invention , he said , but only " small power of ...
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... true ; what mattered was that with the help of my imagination I could make of each person I met a plausible harmony . It was the most entrancing game in which I had ever engaged . One reads that no one exactly resembles anyone else ...
... true ; what mattered was that with the help of my imagination I could make of each person I met a plausible harmony . It was the most entrancing game in which I had ever engaged . One reads that no one exactly resembles anyone else ...
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... true it was a great weakness in that strange and somewhat theatrical character . It showed want of sense . For the ... true that the old man will no longer be able to climb an Alp or tumble a pretty girl on a bed ; it is true that he can ...
... true it was a great weakness in that strange and somewhat theatrical character . It showed want of sense . For the ... true that the old man will no longer be able to climb an Alp or tumble a pretty girl on a bed ; it is true that he can ...
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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