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Page 8
... truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with them- selves , their surprise ...
... truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with them- selves , their surprise ...
Page 56
... truth . I do not want anyone to think better of me than I deserve . Let those who like me take me as I am and let the rest leave me . I have more character than brains and more brains than specific gifts . I said something of this sort ...
... truth . I do not want anyone to think better of me than I deserve . Let those who like me take me as I am and let the rest leave me . I have more character than brains and more brains than specific gifts . I said something of this sort ...
Page 100
... truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion 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 verisimili- tude . It ...
... truth but with effect . That willing suspen- sion 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 verisimili- tude . It ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe Bertrand Russell better character comedy common consciousness course critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feel fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's perfect perhaps persons philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth