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W. Somerset Maugham. tions for it . It is exciting and various . The writer is free to work in whatever place and at ... excitement of the work is such that when it is once started the artist is absorbed in doing it as well as he can ...
W. Somerset Maugham. tions for it . It is exciting and various . The writer is free to work in whatever place and at ... excitement of the work is such that when it is once started the artist is absorbed in doing it as well as he can ...
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... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered ą new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out ... excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country ...
... exciting ; but beneath it was narrow . Now I entered ą new world , and all the instinct in me of a novelist went out ... excited me was to meet one person after another who was new to me . I was like a naturalist who comes into a country ...
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... excitement that gives me a sense of exhilaration , intellectual but suffused with sensuality , a feeling of well - being in which I seem to discern a sense of power and of liberation from human ties ; at the same time I feel in myself a ...
... excitement that gives me a sense of exhilaration , intellectual but suffused with sensuality , a feeling of well - being in which I seem to discern a sense of power and of liberation from human ties ; at the same time I feel in myself a ...
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