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Biographies and reminiscences , technical works , will give you often an intimate detail , a telling touch ... It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you .
Biographies and reminiscences , technical works , will give you often an intimate detail , a telling touch ... It is a slow business to induce them to tell you the particular thing about themselves that can be of use to you .
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I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through ...
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The playwright and the journalist need very similar gifts , a quick eye for a good story and a tell- ing point , animation and a vivid way of writing . All the dramatist needs besides is a specific knack . I do not know that anyone has ...
The playwright and the journalist need very similar gifts , a quick eye for a good story and a tell- ing point , animation and a vivid way of writing . All the dramatist needs besides is a specific knack . I do not know that anyone has ...
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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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