
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 310
The Summing Up is a literary memoir by W. Somerset Maugham, written when he was 64 years old, first published in 1938. It covered his life from 1890 to 1938. The subject matter includes his childhood, his initial success in theater, his transition from theater to fiction writing, and other miscellaneous topics such as travel, and philosophy. It is a small book filled with memorable quotes.
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 310
“Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290
Source: The Summing Up (1938), Ch. 5, p. 12 http://books.google.com/books?id=2hNbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+is+only+one+thing+about+which+I+am+certain+and+this+is%22&pg=PA12#v=onepage- 13 http://books.google.com/books?id=2hNbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22that+there+is+very+little+about+which+one+can+be+certain%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage
“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223
“…we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 64
“…the future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 51
“Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 290