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I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The Tale of a Tub . It is said that when the Dean re - read it in his old age he cried ...
I made up my mind that this was the perfect way to write and I started to work on him in the same way as I had done with Jeremy Taylor . I chose The Tale of a Tub . It is said that when the Dean re - read it in his old age he cried ...
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He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has a quick eye for the instance ; there is no reason to expect that he will have a faculty for con- ceptual thinking . He may have a meditative cast of mind and ...
He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has a quick eye for the instance ; there is no reason to expect that he will have a faculty for con- ceptual thinking . He may have a meditative cast of mind and ...
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When they tell the truth and have in fact had no par- ticular person in mind , it will be found , I think , that they owe their characters rather to their memory than to their creative instinct . How many times have we met d'Artagnan ...
When they tell the truth and have in fact had no par- ticular person in mind , it will be found , I think , that they owe their characters rather to their memory than to their creative instinct . How many times have we met d'Artagnan ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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