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Page 68
... seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently . Many writers seem to me not to observe at all , but to create their characters in stock sizes from images in their own fancy . They are like ...
... seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently . Many writers seem to me not to observe at all , but to create their characters in stock sizes from images in their own fancy . They are like ...
Page 155
... seen famous authors treated with contumely , when they offered a play to managers who had once pestered them with contracts . I had heard actors ' scornful comments on them . I had seen the bewilder- ment , the consternation , the ...
... seen famous authors treated with contumely , when they offered a play to managers who had once pestered them with contracts . I had heard actors ' scornful comments on them . I had seen the bewilder- ment , the consternation , the ...
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... seen on my idle saunter- ings . My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen ...
... seen on my idle saunter- ings . My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen ...
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