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 95
... hard put to it to resist the temptation of inappositely using his special knowledge . The novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is ...
... hard put to it to resist the temptation of inappositely using his special knowledge . The novelist is ill - advised to be too technical . The practice , which came into fashion in the nineties , of using a multitude of cant terms is ...
Page 102
... hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gem - like flame , to be treated as a ...
... hard , gem - like flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was half - way through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gem - like flame , to be treated as a ...
Page 276
... hard to think that a belief that has grown up with the human race , a belief that has been accepted by the wisest men , the sages of the East , the philosophers of Greece , the great Scholastics , should not have a foundation in fact ...
... hard to think that a belief that has grown up with the human race , a belief that has been accepted by the wisest men , the sages of the East , the philosophers of Greece , the great Scholastics , should not have a foundation in fact ...
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