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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... longer . In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle age , with the ordinary expectation of life in these days , it is easy to find excuses for delaying what one ...
... longer . In youth the years stretch before one so long that it is hard to realize that they will ever pass , and even in middle age , with the ordinary expectation of life in these days , it is easy to find excuses for delaying what one ...
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... longer book about the slums . He told me that was what the public wanted from me and prophesied that it would have , now that I had broken the ice , a far greater success than Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I ...
... longer book about the slums . He told me that was what the public wanted from me and prophesied that it would have , now that I had broken the ice , a far greater success than Liza of Lambeth . But this was not in my ideas at all . I ...
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William Somerset Maugham. and they are no longer at home with him . They may look upon him with envy or with admiration , but no longer as one of themselves . The new world into which his success has brought him excites his imagination ...
William Somerset Maugham. and they are no longer at home with him . They may look upon him with envy or with admiration , but no longer as one of themselves . The new world into which his success has brought him excites his imagination ...
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