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Biographies and reminiscences , technical works , will give you often an intimate
detail , a telling touch , a revealing hint , that you might never have got from a
living model . People are hard to know . It is a slow business to induce them to tell
...
Biographies and reminiscences , technical works , will give you often an intimate
detail , a telling touch , a revealing hint , that you might never have got from a
living model . People are hard to know . It is a slow business to induce them to tell
...
Page 99
I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all
agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to
tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a
...
I tell you it's a Roman copy and if I tell you a thing it is so ) ; but they were all
agreed about this , that they burned with a hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to
tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a
...
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I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has
been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now
a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books ...
I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has
been a sufficient object in itself . It has been my misfortune that for some time now
a story has been despised by the intelligent . I have read a good many books ...
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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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