The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 105
... exciting . At last the dress- makers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
... exciting . At last the dress- makers filter through the fireproof door and resume their seats , the representatives of rival firms at a haughty distance from one another , and the stage manager puts his head round the curtain . " All ...
Page 115
... exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a leading lady liked well enough to insist on playing and so tried my hand at a man's play . I wrote Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the ...
... exciting . I began to think that I should never be able to write a piece that a leading lady liked well enough to insist on playing and so tried my hand at a man's play . I wrote Jack Straw . I had been under the impression that the ...
Page 305
... exciting than plain goodness . Good- ness in comparison is a trifle dull . But love has two meanings , love pure and simple , sexual love , namely ; and loving - kindness . I do not think that even Plato distinguished them with ...
... exciting than plain goodness . Good- ness in comparison is a trifle dull . But love has two meanings , love pure and simple , sexual love , namely ; and loving - kindness . I do not think that even Plato distinguished them with ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover Dr Johnson drama dramatist effect emotion English evil exciting existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe hard Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind ness never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul spirit St Thomas's Hospital Stendhal story success suppose tell theatre things thought tion told truth verse Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth