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... invention . Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts , even if I could remember them , of which I have ...
... invention . Fact and fiction are so intermingled in my work that now , looking back on it , I can hardly distinguish one from the other . It would not interest me to record the facts , even if I could remember them , of which I have ...
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... invention never presented me with such embel- lishments ; and I was tired of trying to do what did not come easily to me . On the other hand , I had an acute power of observation and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things ...
... invention never presented me with such embel- lishments ; and I was tired of trying to do what did not come easily to me . On the other hand , I had an acute power of observation and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things ...
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... invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are [ 132 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... invention . Ibsen as we know had a meagre power of invention ; his characters under different names are [ 132 ] THE SUMMING UP.
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