The Summing Up |
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3 IN THIS BOOK I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ...
3 IN THIS BOOK I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ...
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There are two sorts of obscurity that you find in writers . One is due to negligence and the other to wilfulness . People often write obscurely because they have never taken the trouble to learn to write clearly . This sort of obscurity ...
There are two sorts of obscurity that you find in writers . One is due to negligence and the other to wilfulness . People often write obscurely because they have never taken the trouble to learn to write clearly . This sort of obscurity ...
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It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective . But I think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims : stick to the point and whenever you can , cut . The first of these demands a logical mind .
It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective . But I think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims : stick to the point and whenever you can , cut . The first of these demands a logical mind .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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