Paths of Resistance: The Art and Craft of the Political NovelWilliam Zinsser |
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Page 112
... less easily reject the alien , or what we perceive as the alien , because it truly becomes less alien to us . We imitate fictional characters . How many men still play Hemingway - a writer who played his own characters ? The heroes in ...
... less easily reject the alien , or what we perceive as the alien , because it truly becomes less alien to us . We imitate fictional characters . How many men still play Hemingway - a writer who played his own characters ? The heroes in ...
Page 114
... less than we do is exceedingly pop- ular . " They don't know the value of human life in the Orient , " we say , dropping bombs on them , or in Central America , or Africa , or wherever we're doing business . But one of the effects of ...
... less than we do is exceedingly pop- ular . " They don't know the value of human life in the Orient , " we say , dropping bombs on them , or in Central America , or Africa , or wherever we're doing business . But one of the effects of ...
Page 149
... less and less logical in his defense of it , and more and more appalled at all the blood and at those changes in his country which , he confessed- with pride ? - were " fundamental and astounding . " If Lincoln had followed Secretary of ...
... less and less logical in his defense of it , and more and more appalled at all the blood and at those changes in his country which , he confessed- with pride ? - were " fundamental and astounding . " If Lincoln had followed Secretary of ...
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