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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... truth than has ever been done before . But then you have to make up your mind about the relations be- tween truth and art . xxviii I had my full share of the intellectual's arrogance [ 96 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... truth than has ever been done before . But then you have to make up your mind about the relations be- tween truth and art . xxviii I had my full share of the intellectual's arrogance [ 96 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... truth but with effect . That willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is ...
... truth but with effect . That willing suspension of disbelief of which Coleridge wrote is essential to it . The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is ...
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... truth that everyone could accept , but only a truth that agreed with the per- sonality of the individual , the only thing for me was to narrow my search and look for some philosopher whose system suited me because I was the same sort of ...
... truth that everyone could accept , but only a truth that agreed with the per- sonality of the individual , the only thing for me was to narrow my search and look for some philosopher whose system suited me because I was the same sort of ...
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accept action actors admire æsthetic 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