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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... 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 already made a better ...
... 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 already made a better ...
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... fiction . They had a news value . Their dis- advantage was that after a little while they were as unreadable as last week's paper . But the demand of this great new public for knowledge has of late given rise to the production of a ...
... fiction . They had a news value . Their dis- advantage was that after a little while they were as unreadable as last week's paper . But the demand of this great new public for knowledge has of late given rise to the production of a ...
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... fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the teller of tales round the fire in the cavern that shel- tered neolithic men . I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a ...
... fiction I go back , through innumerable generations , to the teller of tales round the fire in the cavern that shel- tered neolithic men . I have had some sort of story to tell and it has interested me to tell it . To me it has been a ...
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