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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Page 99
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
... hard , gemlike flame . I was too shy to tell them that I had written a novel and was halfway through another and it was a great mortification to me , burning as I was too with a hard , gemlike flame , to be treated as a philistine who ...
Page 101
... offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and innate attitudes which the foreigner can never 1 : quite seize . It is hard enough for [ 101 ] THE SUMMING UP.
... offer great diffi- culty , but of ancestral instincts , shades of feeling that they have absorbed with their mothers ' milk , and innate attitudes which the foreigner can never 1 : quite seize . It is hard enough for [ 101 ] THE SUMMING UP.
Page 187
... hard to reconcile yourself to the fact that a book into which you have put , besides your whole self , several months of anxious toil , should be read in three or four hours and after so short a period forgotten . Though it will do him ...
... hard to reconcile yourself to the fact that a book into which you have put , besides your whole self , several months of anxious toil , should be read in three or four hours and after so short a period forgotten . Though it will do him ...
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