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iii In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ...
iii In this book I am going to try to sort out my thoughts on the subjects that have chiefly interested me during the course of my life . But such conclusions as I have come to have drifted about my mind like the wreckage of a foundered ...
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against which the author must be always on his guard , is that there is a sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the way of its own clarification .
against which the author must be always on his guard , is that there is a sort of magic in the written word . The idea acquires substance by taking on a visible nature , and then stands in the way of its own clarification .
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It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective . But I think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims : stick to the point and whenever you can , cut . The first of these demands a logical mind .
It will show you what sort of speech and what sort of scene are effective . But I think the secret of playwriting can be given in two maxims : stick to the point and whenever you can , cut . The first of these demands a logical mind .
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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