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... wanted a subject . I have always had more stories in my head than I ever had time to write . I have often heard writers complain that they wanted to write but had nothing to write about , and I remember one distin- guished author ...
... wanted a subject . I have always had more stories in my head than I ever had time to write . I have often heard writers complain that they wanted to write but had nothing to write about , and I remember one distin- guished author ...
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... wanted to enjoy it . I wanted to get all I possibly could out of it . I was not satis- fied with the appreciation of a small band of intel- lectuals . I had my doubts about their quality , for I had been to a stupid and rather common ...
... wanted to enjoy it . I wanted to get all I possibly could out of it . I was not satis- fied with the appreciation of a small band of intel- lectuals . I had my doubts about their quality , for I had been to a stupid and rather common ...
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... wanted to see what I could do with more complicated subjects , I wanted to make one or two small technical experi- ments which I thought would be theatrically effective , and I wanted to see how far I could go with the pub- lic . I ...
... wanted to see what I could do with more complicated subjects , I wanted to make one or two small technical experi- ments which I thought would be theatrically effective , and I wanted to see how far I could go with the pub- lic . I ...
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