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If I had continued to write plays as bitter as A Man of Honour or as sardonic as Loaves and Fishes I should never have been given the opportunity of producing certain pieces to which not even the most severe have refused praise .
If I had continued to write plays as bitter as A Man of Honour or as sardonic as Loaves and Fishes I should never have been given the opportunity of producing certain pieces to which not even the most severe have refused praise .
Page 95
Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the commercial thea- tre . ... There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays : which are only produced by these ...
Societies have been founded in order to produce plays that people may go to who disdain the commercial thea- tre . ... There are a number of dramatists who spend their whole careers writing plays : which are only produced by these ...
Page 101
... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , suc- cumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose ...
... exciting composers to write for it and producing an elaborate school of performers , suc- cumbed when musical instruments were invented that produced more beautifully the peculiar effects it sought ; and there is no reason why prose ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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