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... invention . Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts , even if I could remember them , of which I have ...
... invention . Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts , even if I could remember them , of which I have ...
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... invention deserts them as they grow older , and they are faced with the long years before them in which , unfitted by now for a more humdrum calling , they harass their wearied brain to beat out material it is incapable of giving them ...
... invention deserts them as they grow older , and they are faced with the long years before them in which , unfitted by now for a more humdrum calling , they harass their wearied brain to beat out material it is incapable of giving them ...
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... invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are [ 132 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are [ 132 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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