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the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything I could lay my hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and ...
the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything I could lay my hands on . xxii I lived at this time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts that seemed to me much superior to mine . They could write and draw and ...
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I am not even sure that it depends on any great difference in the artist's natural gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius .
I am not even sure that it depends on any great difference in the artist's natural gifts . For example , I do not think that Cervantes had an exceptional gift for writing ; few people would deny him genius .
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... is different from other men's ; the idiosyncrasy that makes him a writer separates him from them and the paradox emerges that though his aim is to describe them truthfully his gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are .
... is different from other men's ; the idiosyncrasy that makes him a writer separates him from them and the paradox emerges that though his aim is to describe them truthfully his gift prevents him from knowing them as they really are .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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