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From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
From time to time they will doubtless find a critic in search of a subject to write an article about them , which may cause readers here and there to get out one or other of their books from a library ; but I think it is clear that ...
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for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only concerned with the result . Many writers need the spur of necessity to write at all ( Samuel Johnson was one of them ) , but they do not write for ...
for the reader has nothing to do with the motive for which the author writes . He is only concerned with the result . Many writers need the spur of necessity to write at all ( Samuel Johnson was one of them ) , but they do not write for ...
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Like all writers ( and in all writers there is a certain amount of humbug ) they make a merit of their limitations and either tell the reader that he can imagine for himself what happens or else berate him for wanting to know .
Like all writers ( and in all writers there is a certain amount of humbug ) they make a merit of their limitations and either tell the reader that he can imagine for himself what happens or else berate him for wanting to know .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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