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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... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
... excited the novelist in me . Even now that forty years have passed I can remember certain people so exactly that I could draw a picture of them . Phrases that I heard then still linger on my ears . I saw how men died . I saw how they ...
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... exciting and mysterious . In the civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy . Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they ... excited [ 111 ]
... exciting and mysterious . In the civilized world of the eighteenth century the actors gave life a touch of fantasy . Their disorderly existence was a lure to the imagination in the Age of Reason and the heroic parts they ... excited [ 111 ]
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... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered a new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out ... excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country ...
... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered a new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out ... excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country ...
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accept action actors admire ęsthetic amusing artist asked audience beauty believe better character Chekov comedy common conscious course crasy critic deal delight dialogue discover drama dramatist effect emotion English evil excited existence experience eyes fact feeling fiction forced French gave George Meredith Gerald du Maurier gift give Goethe Henry Arthur Jones Human Bondage human nature humour ideas idiosyncrasy imagination important instinct interest invention Jack Straw knew knowledge Kuno Fischer Lady Frederick literature live Liza of Lambeth look matter Matthew Arnold meaning mind never notion novel novelist one's pattern perfect perhaps philosophers phrase picture play pleasure produced prose reader reason seemed sense sometimes sort soul speak spirit Stendhal story success suppose talent tell theatre things thought tion told truth Walter Pater wanted words write written wrote young youth