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 121
... look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it . I meant then never to write another ...
... look up and saw the clouds lit by the setting sun . I paused to look at the lovely sight and I thought to myself : Thank God , I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it . I meant then never to write another ...
Page 188
... 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 and he writes about it ; but he sees it from the outside and can never so ...
... 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 and he writes about it ; but he sees it from the outside and can never so ...
Page 294
... look forward to economic changes that will transform civilisation . They will not know the easy , sheltered life which makes many who were at their prime before the war look upon those years as did the survivors of the French Revolution ...
... look forward to economic changes that will transform civilisation . They will not know the easy , sheltered life which makes many who were at their prime before the war look upon those years as did the survivors of the French Revolution ...
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