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Page 102
... fact that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for my- self as a novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction ...
... fact that George Moore's Strike at Arlingford was done by the Independent Theatre , that my only chance of being acted was by making a reputation for my- self as a novelist . So I put the drama aside and set myself to writing fiction ...
Page 138
... fact that from the first I felt a singular embarrassment at witnessing one of my own plays , and this , instead of growing less with each play I produced , as I might have expected , grew greater . The feeling that a mass of people were ...
... fact that from the first I felt a singular embarrassment at witnessing one of my own plays , and this , instead of growing less with each play I produced , as I might have expected , grew greater . The feeling that a mass of people were ...
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... fact is that they do not want many of the things that to others of us appear essential . It is fortunate for the well - to- do . For he is blind who will not see that in the lives of the proletariat in the great cities all is misery and ...
... fact is that they do not want many of the things that to others of us appear essential . It is fortunate for the well - to- do . For he is blind who will not see that in the lives of the proletariat in the great cities all is misery and ...
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