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Page 32
But the journalism of a period has very much the same style ; it might all have been written by the same hand ; it is impersonal . It is well to counteract its effect by reading of another kind . One can do this only by keeping ...
But the journalism of a period has very much the same style ; it might all have been written by the same hand ; it is impersonal . It is well to counteract its effect by reading of another kind . One can do this only by keeping ...
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I exposed myself to every vicissitude that seemed to offer a chance of gaining the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything I could lay my hands on . 22 I LIVED AT THIS time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts ...
I exposed myself to every vicissitude that seemed to offer a chance of gaining the greater experience that I wanted and I read everything I could lay my hands on . 22 I LIVED AT THIS time in a group of young men who had by nature gifts ...
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It has interested me to watch the way in which a part grows in the actor's hands from the first lifeless reading of the ... to get the centre of the stage for their scene , and the desultory talk about any subject that came to hand .
It has interested me to watch the way in which a part grows in the actor's hands from the first lifeless reading of the ... to get the centre of the stage for their scene , and the desultory talk about any subject that came to hand .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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