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I left enough to give the critics grounds for animadversion , and my dia- logue was , in some quarters , blamed because it was " literary . " I was told that people did not speak like that . I never thought they did .
I left enough to give the critics grounds for animadversion , and my dia- logue was , in some quarters , blamed because it was " literary . " I was told that people did not speak like that . I never thought they did .
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I used to stay away till my receptivity was exhausted and I found that when I met people I had no longer the power to make the imaginative effort to give them shape and coherence ; then I returned to England to sort out my impressions ...
I used to stay away till my receptivity was exhausted and I found that when I met people I had no longer the power to make the imaginative effort to give them shape and coherence ; then I returned to England to sort out my impressions ...
Page 149
They will give a suggestion that excites the imagination , but then are apt to exercise an authority that is only pernicious . The classic example of this is to be found in Le Rouge et le Noir . This is a very great novel , but it is ...
They will give a suggestion that excites the imagination , but then are apt to exercise an authority that is only pernicious . The classic example of this is to be found in Le Rouge et le Noir . This is a very great novel , but it is ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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