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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... important to me and it is about myself because I can only treat of these subjects as they have affected me . But it is not about my doings . I have no desire to lay bare my heart , and I put limits to the intimacy that I wish the reader ...
... important to me and it is about myself because I can only treat of these subjects as they have affected me . But it is not about my doings . I have no desire to lay bare my heart , and I put limits to the intimacy that I wish the reader ...
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... important as the dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary ...
... important as the dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary ...
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... important by far , is the free- dom to follow his own bent , and the other is con- fidence in himself . Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he com- pares his work with what he intended it to be is ...
... important by far , is the free- dom to follow his own bent , and the other is con- fidence in himself . Notwithstanding his pretension and his susceptible vanity the author when he com- pares his work with what he intended it to be is ...
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