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Page 252
... writer , " I said , and I blushed . “ A writer ? ” Lazar Borisovich adjusted his pince - nez and stared at me with threatening surprise . " Ho - ho ! It's not much just want- ing to be a writer . Perhaps I too would like to be Leo ...
... writer , " I said , and I blushed . “ A writer ? ” Lazar Borisovich adjusted his pince - nez and stared at me with threatening surprise . " Ho - ho ! It's not much just want- ing to be a writer . Perhaps I too would like to be Leo ...
Page 278
... writers and poets are the lowest " of all the people of the lowest world . " I could make no distinction between a writer and every- thing he wrote about . This was why I looked with equal excitement at Alexei Tolstoy , with his beard ...
... writers and poets are the lowest " of all the people of the lowest world . " I could make no distinction between a writer and every- thing he wrote about . This was why I looked with equal excitement at Alexei Tolstoy , with his beard ...
Page 439
... writer , memory is nearly everything . For it not only hoards the material he has accumulated . It retains , like a magic sieve , what is valuable in it , the dust and trash fall out and are carried away by the wind , and the gold stays ...
... writer , memory is nearly everything . For it not only hoards the material he has accumulated . It retains , like a magic sieve , what is valuable in it , the dust and trash fall out and are carried away by the wind , and the gold stays ...
Contents
The Death of My Father | 3 |
My Grandfather Maxim Grigorievich | 10 |
Carp | 16 |
Copyright | |
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