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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... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of com- position . I know now that this ...
... experience of life to write of contemporary manners ; history provided him with a story and characters and the romantic fervour of his young blood gave him the dash that was needed for this sort of com- position . I know now that this ...
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... experience . I did . I filled note - books with descriptions of places and persons and the stories they suggested . I became aware of the specific benefit I was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive ...
... experience . I did . I filled note - books with descriptions of places and persons and the stories they suggested . I became aware of the specific benefit I was capable of getting from travel ; before , it had been only an instinctive ...
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... experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occa- sion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have used to describe their ...
... experience so often , and in terms so similar , that I do not see how one can deny its reality . Indeed , I have myself had on one occa- sion an experience that I could only describe in the words the mystics have used to describe their ...
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