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Success . It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determi- nation to ...
Success . It is the most difficult thing the writer has to cope with . When after a long and bitter struggle he has at last achieved it he finds that it spreads a snare to entangle and destroy him . Few of us have the determi- nation to ...
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Success destroyed him . 49 THE WRITER IS wise then who is wary of success . He must look with dread on the claims that others make on him because of it , the responsibilities it forces on him , and the hindering activities that it ...
Success destroyed him . 49 THE WRITER IS wise then who is wary of success . He must look with dread on the claims that others make on him because of it , the responsibilities it forces on him , and the hindering activities that it ...
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51 WHEN , HAVING achieved success as a dramatist , I de- termined to devote the rest of my life to playwriting I reckoned without my host . I was happy , I was prosperous , I was busy , my head was full of plays that I wanted to write ...
51 WHEN , HAVING achieved success as a dramatist , I de- termined to devote the rest of my life to playwriting I reckoned without my host . I was happy , I was prosperous , I was busy , my head was full of plays that I wanted to write ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
| Published | 1938 |
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