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By then I no longer had any ambition to be a stylist ; I put aside all thought of fine writing . I wanted to write without any frills of language , in as bare and unaffected a manner as I could . I had so much to say that I could afford ...
By then I no longer had any ambition to be a stylist ; I put aside all thought of fine writing . I wanted to write without any frills of language , in as bare and unaffected a manner as I could . I had so much to say that I could afford ...
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guage in which they clothed their thoughts but my own invention never presented me with such embellishments ... I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish , but I thought with pains I could arrive at writing as well as my ...
guage in which they clothed their thoughts but my own invention never presented me with such embellishments ... I knew that I should never write as well as I could wish , but I thought with pains I could arrive at writing as well as my ...
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It has been noticed over and over again that , intellectually , the theatre is thirty years behind the times , and the intelligent owing to its poverty of thought have largely ceased to frequent it . I have a notion that when the ...
It has been noticed over and over again that , intellectually , the theatre is thirty years behind the times , and the intelligent owing to its poverty of thought have largely ceased to frequent it . I have a notion that when the ...
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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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