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Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now, looking back on it, I can
hardly distinguish one from the other. It would not interest me to record the facts,
even if I could remember them, of which I have already made a better use.
Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now, looking back on it, I can
hardly distinguish one from the other. It would not interest me to record the facts,
even if I could remember them, of which I have already made a better use.
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But the harshest stroke of all was her comment on what I thought was rather a
good joke: 'Are you sure of your facts?' Taking it all in all I am bound to conclude
that the professor at her college would not have given me very high marks.
But the harshest stroke of all was her comment on what I thought was rather a
good joke: 'Are you sure of your facts?' Taking it all in all I am bound to conclude
that the professor at her college would not have given me very high marks.
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The fact is that they are suspicious of form. They find in it a sort of airlessness; its
constraint irks them; they feel that when the author has fixed upon his material a
wilful shape life has slipped through his fingers. The French critic demands that a
...
The fact is that they are suspicious of form. They find in it a sort of airlessness; its
constraint irks them; they feel that when the author has fixed upon his material a
wilful shape life has slipped through his fingers. The French critic demands that a
...
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| Title | The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1 Armed Services ed Armed Services editions Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham Volume 5339 of Collection of British authors International Collector's Library Volume 60 of Mentor books Volume 5339 of Tauchnitz edition of British and American authors Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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