The Summing Up, Part 354, Volume 1The reminiscences of the author's lifetime; insight on life and art; education, discipline and training of a writer. |
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... dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has a quick eye for the instance ; there is no reason to expect that he will have a faculty for conceptual thinking . He may have a meditative cast of mind and be interested in the ...
... dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has a quick eye for the instance ; there is no reason to expect that he will have a faculty for conceptual thinking . He may have a meditative cast of mind and be interested in the ...
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... dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary business , a quick ...
... dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary business , a quick ...
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... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimili- tude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
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