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They claim that in life stories are not finished , situations are not rounded off and loose ends are left hanging . ... For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to ...
They claim that in life stories are not finished , situations are not rounded off and loose ends are left hanging . ... For the novelist claims to be an artist and the artist does not copy life , he makes an arrangement out of it to ...
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LXI THAT IS a claim that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has asserted that he was not as other men and in consequence not amenable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy ...
LXI THAT IS a claim that the author has always made and to this he has added another claim : he has asserted that he was not as other men and in consequence not amenable to their rules . Other men have received it with obloquy ...
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We who were in the full vigour of our youth before the First World War may not unreasonably claim that we too knew the sweetness of life . Of course I welcome the relief that has been afforded in my country to the underprivileged so ...
We who were in the full vigour of our youth before the First World War may not unreasonably claim that we too knew the sweetness of life . Of course I welcome the relief that has been afforded in my country to the underprivileged so ...
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| Title | The Summing Up Volume 17 of Contemporary English series Volume 60 of Mentor books |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | Doubleday, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 279 pages |
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