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I have never taken very comfortably to collaboration , and as I have pointed out ,
a play is more than any other artistic product a matter of collective effort . I found it
more and more difficult to work in harmony with my collaborators . . It is often ...
I have never taken very comfortably to collaboration , and as I have pointed out ,
a play is more than any other artistic product a matter of collective effort . I found it
more and more difficult to work in harmony with my collaborators . . It is often ...
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Trying to form for myself some sort of picture of this , I have seen spirit in the
likeness of a river that forces its way through the jungle of matter ; but river is
jungle and jungle is river , for river and jungle are one . It does not seem
impossible that ...
Trying to form for myself some sort of picture of this , I have seen spirit in the
likeness of a river that forces its way through the jungle of matter ; but river is
jungle and jungle is river , for river and jungle are one . It does not seem
impossible that ...
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many books to discover what the authorities had to say that made the matter a
little plainer . I have known intimately a great many persons who were absorbed
in the arts . I am afraid that neither from them nor from books have I learnt much
that ...
many books to discover what the authorities had to say that made the matter a
little plainer . I have known intimately a great many persons who were absorbed
in the arts . I am afraid that neither from them nor from books have I learnt much
that ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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