The Summing Up |
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No one can tell the whole 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- ...
No one can tell the whole 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- ...
Page 56
But for me the race now is nearly run and it would ill become me to conceal the 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 .
But for me the race now is nearly run and it would ill become me to conceal the 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 .
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It does not deal with 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 ...
It does not deal with 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 ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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