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 96
... raise and so come nearer to the plain truth than has ever been done before .
But then you have to make up your mind about the relations between truth and art
. xxviii I had full share of the intellectual's arrogance my [ 96 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... raise and so come nearer to the plain truth than has ever been done before .
But then you have to make up your mind about the relations between truth and art
. xxviii I had full share of the intellectual's arrogance my [ 96 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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It does not deal with 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 what ...
It does not deal with 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 what ...
Page 253
... for something that could not be found . It seemed to me then that if there was in
philosophy no universal truth that everyone could accept , but only a truth that
agreed with the personality of the individual , the only thing for me was to narrow
...
... for something that could not be found . It seemed to me then that if there was in
philosophy no universal truth that everyone could accept , but only a truth that
agreed with the personality of the individual , the only thing for me was to narrow
...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Works 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 |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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