The Autobiography of an American Novelist"The story of a novel"--Part one of this book - is a candid telling of how Wolfe became a writer and how he wrote and published his first novel. "Writing and living" - the second part of this book - is a testament to Wolfe's newly awakened social conscience. |
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Page 32
... somehow to find a word for it ; a language that would tell its shape , its color , the way we have all known and felt and seen it . And it was the same with a mil- lion other things as well- the look of a string of empty freight cars ...
... somehow to find a word for it ; a language that would tell its shape , its color , the way we have all known and felt and seen it . And it was the same with a mil- lion other things as well- the look of a string of empty freight cars ...
Page 43
... somehow pregnant with all the joy and sorrow of the human destiny , the tragic brief- ness of man's days , and which we know , somehow , are there- fore more important than many things of more apparent con- sequence . " Where now ...
... somehow pregnant with all the joy and sorrow of the human destiny , the tragic brief- ness of man's days , and which we know , somehow , are there- fore more important than many things of more apparent con- sequence . " Where now ...
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... somehow convinced my forlorn classes had been seeking for me for a year , I saw them searching through the mazes of the corridors , prowling among the swarming myriads of their thirty thousand fellow students , sitting in pa- tient ...
... somehow convinced my forlorn classes had been seeking for me for a year , I saw them searching through the mazes of the corridors , prowling among the swarming myriads of their thirty thousand fellow students , sitting in pa- tient ...
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