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 85
... sense of probability . I have painted easel pictures , not frescoes . 24 I HEARTILY wish that in my youth I had had someone of good sense to direct my reading . I sigh when I reflect on the amount of time I have wasted on books that ...
... sense of probability . I have painted easel pictures , not frescoes . 24 I HEARTILY wish that in my youth I had had someone of good sense to direct my reading . I sigh when I reflect on the amount of time I have wasted on books that ...
Page 236
... sense have another validity . To the writer this is not so . The images , free ideas that throng his mind , are not guides but materials for action . They have all the vivid- ness of sensation . His day - dreams are so significant to ...
... sense have another validity . To the writer this is not so . The images , free ideas that throng his mind , are not guides but materials for action . They have all the vivid- ness of sensation . His day - dreams are so significant to ...
Page 277
... sense of the power and import of the universe , and an intimate , a shattering sense of com- munion with it . I could almost bring myself to say that I felt the presence of God . It is doubtless a common enough sensation and the mystics ...
... sense of the power and import of the universe , and an intimate , a shattering sense of com- munion with it . I could almost bring myself to say that I felt the presence of God . It is doubtless a common enough sensation and the mystics ...
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