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Page 77
... imagination ; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality , but the means by which he accedes to it . His reverie is purposeful . It affords him a delight in comparison with which ...
... imagination ; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality , but the means by which he accedes to it . His reverie is purposeful . It affords him a delight in comparison with which ...
Page 189
... imagination on a living person . I sus- pect that the writers who deny that they use actual persons deceive themselves ( which is not impossible , since you can be a very good novelist without being very intelligent ) or deceive us ...
... imagination on a living person . I sus- pect that the writers who deny that they use actual persons deceive themselves ( which is not impossible , since you can be a very good novelist without being very intelligent ) or deceive us ...
Page 250
... imagination and they do not suffer from circum- stances that to the imaginative would be unbearable . The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so ...
... imagination and they do not suffer from circum- stances that to the imaginative would be unbearable . The lack of privacy , to take an instance , in which the very poor live seems frightful to us who value it ; but it does not seem so ...
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