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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... nature ; but I am speaking now only of the way in which I expressed myself . It seems to me that I had a natural lucidity and a knack for writing easy dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first ...
... nature ; but I am speaking now only of the way in which I expressed myself . It seems to me that I had a natural lucidity and a knack for writing easy dialogue . When Henry Arthur Jones , then a well - known playwright , read my first ...
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... nature of his readers and they will lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this idiosyncrasy does not appeal . They have no patience ...
... nature of his readers and they will lead with him a life of the spirit that satisfies them better than the life circumstances have forced on them . But there are others to whom this idiosyncrasy does not appeal . They have no patience ...
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... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Vol- taire's Candide . It would be ...
... nature is such that it falters sometimes when it is bidden to take the broadest of all surveys of human nature . It will shrink from the splendour of Tolstoi's War and Peace to turn with complacency to Vol- taire's Candide . It would be ...
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