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 90
... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
... experience without which I could not write , but I have gone into it also because I wanted experience for its own sake . It did not seem to me enough only to be a writer . The pat- tern I had designed for myself insisted that I should ...
Page 169
... experience . If my books had been refused one after the other I should have come before the public at last with work less imperfect . I regret that I had no one to guide me ; I might have been spared much misdirected effort . I knew a ...
... experience . If my books had been refused one after the other I should have come before the public at last with work less imperfect . I regret that I had no one to guide me ; I might have been spared much misdirected effort . I knew a ...
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... experience , espe- cially the common experience of philosophers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Im- mortality is too stupendous a notion to be enter- tained in connection with common mortals . They are too ...
... experience , espe- cially the common experience of philosophers , shows that a great many men are no great shakes . Im- mortality is too stupendous a notion to be enter- tained in connection with common mortals . They are too ...
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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