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Page 68
... seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently . Many writers seem to me not to observe at all , but to create their characters in stock sizes from images in their own fancy . They are like ...
... seen the same people quite differently . I can only claim to have seen them coherently . Many writers seem to me not to observe at all , but to create their characters in stock sizes from images in their own fancy . They are like ...
Page 145
... seen in it , but at the utmost he can do no more than reach the ideal that the author has seen in his mind's eye . He has to be an actor of address to do this ; for the most part the author has to be satisfied with an approximation to ...
... seen in it , but at the utmost he can do no more than reach the ideal that the author has seen in his mind's eye . He has to be an actor of address to do this ; for the most part the author has to be satisfied with an approximation to ...
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... seen on my idle saunter- ings . My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen ...
... seen on my idle saunter- ings . My lack of imagination ( for imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young ) obliged me to set down quite straightforwardly what I had seen ...
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