The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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... asked her . I was exceedingly surprised to hear that she wrote everything over and over again . She told me that she would often spend a whole morning working upon a single page . But it does not matter how one gets the effect of ease ...
... asked her . I was exceedingly surprised to hear that she wrote everything over and over again . She told me that she would often spend a whole morning working upon a single page . But it does not matter how one gets the effect of ease ...
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... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
... asked myself whether it was possible for them to have forgotten their humanity so completely as their words suggested . I have wished that beside his bunch of flowers at the Old Bailey , his lordship had a packet of toilet paper . It ...
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... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from ...
... asked me what I would like as a present , I answered with- out hesitation Herbert Spencer's First Principles . I read it with complacency . But I was impatient of Spencer's maudlin belief in progress : the world I knew was going from ...
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