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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... 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.
... 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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The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity ...
The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity ...
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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 ...
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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| 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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