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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... instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are wrong , but it ...
... instinct and when I know a thing never feel in myself the desire to impart it to others . I do not much care if people agree with me . Of course I think I am right , otherwise I should not think as I do , and they are wrong , but it ...
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... here I was in contact with what I most wanted , life in the raw . In those three years I must have witnessed pretty well every emotion of which man is capable . It appealed to my dramatic instinct [ 62 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... here I was in contact with what I most wanted , life in the raw . In those three years I must have witnessed pretty well every emotion of which man is capable . It appealed to my dramatic instinct [ 62 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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... instinct within him and his brain teems with subjects . He has not the skill to cope with them . His experience is narrow . He is crude and he does not know how to make the best of such gifts as he has . And when he has finished his ...
... instinct within him and his brain teems with subjects . He has not the skill to cope with them . His experience is narrow . He is crude and he does not know how to make the best of such gifts as he has . And when he has finished his ...
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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