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Page 121
... easy to write a good novel as then it was difficult to write even a mediocre one . If one takes the trouble to look through the volumes of The Yellow Book , which at that time seemed the last thing in sophis- .ticated intelligence , it ...
... easy to write a good novel as then it was difficult to write even a mediocre one . If one takes the trouble to look through the volumes of The Yellow Book , which at that time seemed the last thing in sophis- .ticated intelligence , it ...
Page 139
... easy life ; what excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country where the fauna are of an unimaginable variety . Some I recognized ; they were old types that I had ...
... easy life ; what excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country where the fauna are of an unimaginable variety . Some I recognized ; they were old types that I had ...
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... easy to shrug one's shoulders when one finds oneself described as a genius , but not so easy to be unconcerned when one is treated as a nincompoop . The history of criticism is there to show that contemporary criticism is fallible . It ...
... easy to shrug one's shoulders when one finds oneself described as a genius , but not so easy to be unconcerned when one is treated as a nincompoop . The history of criticism is there to show that contemporary criticism is fallible . It ...
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