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I have no desire to lay bare my heart , and I put limits to the intimacy that I wish the reader to enter upon with me . There are matters on which I am content to maintain my privacy .
I have no desire to lay bare my heart , and I put limits to the intimacy that I wish the reader to enter upon with me . There are matters on which I am content to maintain my privacy .
Page 10
From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
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In the production of his work , the author has fulfilled himself . But that is not to say that it has any value for anyone else . The reader of a book , the observer of a picture , is not concerned with the artist's feelings .
In the production of his work , the author has fulfilled himself . But that is not to say that it has any value for anyone else . The reader of a book , the observer of a picture , is not concerned with the artist's feelings .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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