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This is especially the case with writing fiction . Thanks to sentimental schoolteachers and the advertisements of firms which are not without guile in screaming that they can teach you to write , there is a general belief that anybody ...
This is especially the case with writing fiction . Thanks to sentimental schoolteachers and the advertisements of firms which are not without guile in screaming that they can teach you to write , there is a general belief that anybody ...
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In the writing profession , there is nothing that quite corresponds to this sort of camaraderie . ... Ibid . , " Peaks in Journalism " ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH To write or to speak is almost inevitably to lie a little .
In the writing profession , there is nothing that quite corresponds to this sort of camaraderie . ... Ibid . , " Peaks in Journalism " ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH To write or to speak is almost inevitably to lie a little .
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... in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water , with a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand , and write ribald songs against organized society ; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty ...
... in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water , with a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand , and write ribald songs against organized society ; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty ...
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Contents
Introduction | 2 |
of Americans | 9 |
a Look at the Country | 65 |
Copyright | |
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American ANON asked beautiful become believe body called civilization comes common Constitution dead death earth equal experience eyes face fact father fear feel force freedom GEORGE give ground hand head hear heart HENRY hope human Ibid idea interest JAMES JOHN keep kind land leave less letter liberty light LINCOLN lines live look March MARK matter means mind nature never night once passed peace person play political race reason remember seemed sense side society soul speak speech spirit stand talk tell things thought tion tree true truth turn United universe whole write York young
Bibliographic information
| Title | The American Treasury, 1455-1955 |
| Editor | Clifton Fadiman |
| Compiled by | Clifton Fadiman |
| Publisher | Harper, 1955 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 1108 pages |
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