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Page 51
... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked forward to , my imagination in the very moment of fulfilment has been busy with the problematical ...
... passing moment might linger so that I could get more enjoyment from it , for even when it has brought me something I had immensely looked forward to , my imagination in the very moment of fulfilment has been busy with the problematical ...
Page 120
... passing the time . I wrote a series of plays in quick succession . It began with Our Betters , which was written in 1915 , and ended with The Constant Wife , which was written in 1927 . Most of these plays were comedies . They are ...
... passing the time . I wrote a series of plays in quick succession . It began with Our Betters , which was written in 1915 , and ended with The Constant Wife , which was written in 1927 . Most of these plays were comedies . They are ...
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... passing fame . I might have been satisfied . But there was one thing more I wanted to achieve and this it seemed to me I could not hope to reach in the drama . Perfection . I looked not at my own plays , of whose faults no one could be ...
... passing fame . I might have been satisfied . But there was one thing more I wanted to achieve and this it seemed to me I could not hope to reach in the drama . Perfection . I looked not at my own plays , of whose faults no one could be ...
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