The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts , even if I could remember them , of which I have already made a ...
... Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts , even if I could remember them , of which I have already made a ...
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... fact he was incredibly idle and left the work of his parish to his curate and his churchwardens . But I was impres- sionable and soon became very religious . I accepted what I was taught , both in my uncle's vicarage and afterwards at ...
... fact he was incredibly idle and left the work of his parish to his curate and his churchwardens . But I was impres- sionable and soon became very religious . I accepted what I was taught , both in my uncle's vicarage and afterwards at ...
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... fact is that they do not want many of the things that to others of us appear essential . It is fortunate for the well - to - do . For he is blind who will not see that in the lives of the proletariat in the great cities all is misery ...
... fact is that they do not want many of the things that to others of us appear essential . It is fortunate for the well - to - do . For he is blind who will not see that in the lives of the proletariat in the great cities all is misery ...
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