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Page 8
... suggested to me that the sixties are very unhealthy ; I have long thought that it would exas- perate me to die before I had written this book and so it seemed to me that I had better set about it at once . When I have finished it I can ...
... suggested to me that the sixties are very unhealthy ; I have long thought that it would exas- perate me to die before I had written this book and so it seemed to me that I had better set about it at once . When I have finished it I can ...
Page 56
... suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It would remind him that he was a man like any other . xvii I have been called cynical . I have been accused of ...
... suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It would remind him that he was a man like any other . xvii I have been called cynical . I have been accused of ...
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... suggested to me that the novelist's method of taking two or three people , or even a group , and describing their adventures , spiritual and otherwise , as though no one else existed and nothing else was happening in the world , gave a ...
... suggested to me that the novelist's method of taking two or three people , or even a group , and describing their adventures , spiritual and otherwise , as though no one else existed and nothing else was happening in the world , gave a ...
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