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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... youth I had had the advantage of such sensible , broad - minded and kindly advice . 9 As it is , I have had to teach myself . I have looked at the stories I wrote when I was very young in order to discover what natural aptitude I had ...
... youth I had had the advantage of such sensible , broad - minded and kindly advice . 9 As it is , I have had to teach myself . I have looked at the stories I wrote when I was very young in order to discover what natural aptitude I had ...
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... youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons . It is a form of play , due merely to the exuberance of their years , and is no more ...
... youth . To write prose and verse , to hammer out little tunes on the piano and to draw and paint , are instinctive with a great many young persons . It is a form of play , due merely to the exuberance of their years , and is no more ...
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... youth when I considered that art ( in which I included the beauties of nature , for I was very much of opinion , as indeed I still am , that their beauty was constructed by men as definitely as they constructed pictures or symphonies ) ...
... youth when I considered that art ( in which I included the beauties of nature , for I was very much of opinion , as indeed I still am , that their beauty was constructed by men as definitely as they constructed pictures or symphonies ) ...
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