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Grandest Hotel

'I HAVE not had a clear and fixed ambition. I began to write novels because my friends said 1 could. The same for plays. But I always had a strong feeling for journalism, which......

Works Of 'art

That cool, wide world where even shadows are Ordered and relegated to .a shape Not too intrusive and yet not too spare. How easy it has seemed to wander deep Into this world and......

Down Among The , Dang Men Imagination Is The Basic...

of any artist, and it is only natural that philistines should detest and deny it, asserting that all art is really autobiography. The assertion i s particularly damaging to the......