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Page 119
... success and I wrote my next two plays to consolidate my hold on the public . They were a little bolder and , mild and unsophisticated as they must seem now , they were attacked by the more strait - laced for their indecency . One of ...
... success and I wrote my next two plays to consolidate my hold on the public . They were a little bolder and , mild and unsophisticated as they must seem now , they were attacked by the more strait - laced for their indecency . One of ...
Page 183
... success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters a new world . He is made much of . He must be almost super - human ...
... success . Success besides often bears within itself the seed of destruction , for it may very well cut the author off from the material that was its occasion . He enters a new world . He is made much of . He must be almost super - human ...
Page 190
... success did not bring me all I had ex- pected or whether it was a natural reaction from success : I was but just firmly established as a popular playwright when I began to be obsessed by the teem- ing memories of my past life . The loss ...
... success did not bring me all I had ex- pected or whether it was a natural reaction from success : I was but just firmly established as a popular playwright when I began to be obsessed by the teem- ing memories of my past life . The loss ...
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