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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 ...
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 ...
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In fact fact my connection with that body prejudiced me with them , for they decided that I could only write gloomy and unprofita . a ble plays . They could not say that my comedies [ 115 ] THE SUMMING UP.
In fact fact my connection with that body prejudiced me with them , for they decided that I could only write gloomy and unprofita . a ble plays . They could not say that my comedies [ 115 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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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 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 .
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