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It is raw material straight from the knacker's yard , and we are stupid if we turn up our noses because it smells of blood and sweat . We cannot , however willingly we would , escape the influence of this workaday prose .
It is raw material straight from the knacker's yard , and we are stupid if we turn up our noses because it smells of blood and sweat . We cannot , however willingly we would , escape the influence of this workaday prose .
Page 102
It suggests a matter of fact turn of mind rather than a heaven - sent compulsion to enrich the world with works of art . When I had published a couple of novels and had a 1 my volume of short stories ready for the press , 102 THE ...
It suggests a matter of fact turn of mind rather than a heaven - sent compulsion to enrich the world with works of art . When I had published a couple of novels and had a 1 my volume of short stories ready for the press , 102 THE ...
Page 200
Because at school , unable to adapt himself to the standards of that narrow world , he has been kicked and cuffed , he will when grown up cuff and kick in his turn in order to assuage his wounded feelings .
Because at school , unable to adapt himself to the standards of that narrow world , he has been kicked and cuffed , he will when grown up cuff and kick in his turn in order to assuage his wounded feelings .
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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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