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Reverie is the groundwork of creative 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 .
Reverie is the groundwork of creative 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 .
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Turgenev stated that he could not create a character at all unless as a starting point he could fix his imagination on a living person . I suspect that the writers who deny that they use actual persons deceive themselves ( which is not ...
Turgenev stated that he could not create a character at all unless as a starting point he could fix his imagination on a living person . I suspect that the writers who deny that they use actual persons deceive themselves ( which is not ...
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Most people have little imagination and they do not suffer from circumstances 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 ...
Most people have little imagination and they do not suffer from circumstances 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 ...
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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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