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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Page 195
... give me and tem- porarily retired from the stage . I had written a novel on the same themes when , after taking my medical degrees , I went to Seville . Luckily for me Fisher Unwin refused to give me the hundred pounds I wanted for it ...
... give me and tem- porarily retired from the stage . I had written a novel on the same themes when , after taking my medical degrees , I went to Seville . Luckily for me Fisher Unwin refused to give me the hundred pounds I wanted for it ...
Page 220
... give offence and he uses what means he can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different places , gives them another means of livelihood , situates them perhaps in a different class ; what he cannot so ...
... give offence and he uses what means he can to protect his originals ; he puts the persons of his invention in different places , gives them another means of livelihood , situates them perhaps in a different class ; what he cannot so ...
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... give life some kind of sense . Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of dis- interestedness which gives man the illusion that through them he escapes from human ...
... give life some kind of sense . Though it can hardly be doubted that they too have a biologic utility , they have superficially an appearance of dis- interestedness which gives man the illusion that through them he escapes from human ...
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