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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... so that I have been forced to go on making new ones . This disa- bility , I am aware , has made my company less agree- able than it might otherwise have been . I have never kept a diary . I wish now [ I ] Replacement i ...
... so that I have been forced to go on making new ones . This disa- bility , I am aware , has made my company less agree- able than it might otherwise have been . I have never kept a diary . I wish now [ I ] Replacement i ...
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... forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is im- posed ...
... forced by the situation in which they were born and the necessity of earning a living to keep to a straight and narrow road in which there is no possibility of turning to the right or to the left . Upon these the pattern is im- posed ...
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... forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , how- ever distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul to- gether . It is forced upon him still in countries with a small reading ...
... forced upon him very generally in the past , when the author , how- ever distinguished and popular , could not earn enough money by writing to keep body and soul to- gether . It is forced upon him still in countries with a small reading ...
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