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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... seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed . I could put down in clear terms what I saw . I had a logical sense , and if no great feeling for the richness and strangeness of words , at all events a lively ...
... seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed . I could put down in clear terms what I saw . I had a logical sense , and if no great feeling for the richness and strangeness of words , at all events a lively ...
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... seemed to me unsatis- factory . During the rehearsals I had come in con- tact with the people who were interested in the so- ciety and especially with Granville Barker , who played the leading part in my play . The attitude I found ...
... seemed to me unsatis- factory . During the rehearsals I had come in con- tact with the people who were interested in the so- ciety and especially with Granville Barker , who played the leading part in my play . The attitude I found ...
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... seemed to demand capac- ities that I did not think I possessed ; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at the moment and my being a writer was very good ' cover ' for what I was asked to do . I was not very well . I ...
... seemed to demand capac- ities that I did not think I possessed ; but there seemed to be no one more competent available at the moment and my being a writer was very good ' cover ' for what I was asked to do . I was not very well . I ...
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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