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One great difference between the persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that the persons of real life are creatures of impulse . It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon ...
One great difference between the persons of real life and the persons of fiction is that the persons of real life are creatures of impulse . It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon ...
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It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the ...
It is a psychological trait in human nature that interest is established in the persons whom the playwright introduces at the beginning of his play so firmly that if the interest is then switched off to other persons who enter upon the ...
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written the names of the persons who had suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father ... he could not create a character at all unless as a starting point he could fix his imagination on a living person .
written the names of the persons who had suggested his characters ; Dickens , as we all know , portrayed his father ... he could not create a character at all unless as a starting point he could fix his imagination on a living person .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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