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I find him as dull as a picture of Alma Tadema . It is strange that one can ever have admired that prose . It does not flow . There is no air in it . A careful mosaic constructed by someone without great technical skill to decorate the ...
I find him as dull as a picture of Alma Tadema . It is strange that one can ever have admired that prose . It does not flow . There is no air in it . A careful mosaic constructed by someone without great technical skill to decorate the ...
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I was myself living in several sets that had no connection with one another , and it occurred to me that it might give a truer picture of life if one could carry on at the same time the various stories , of equal importance , that were ...
I was myself living in several sets that had no connection with one another , and it occurred to me that it might give a truer picture of life if one could carry on at the same time the various stories , of equal importance , that were ...
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If he is a novelist he uses his experience of people and places , his apprehension of himself , his love and hate , his deepest thoughts . his passing fancies , to draw in one work after another a picture of life .
If he is a novelist he uses his experience of people and places , his apprehension of himself , his love and hate , his deepest thoughts . his passing fancies , to draw in one work after another a picture of life .
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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