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...like him? The exactest copy of his politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayakovsky... ...and the Russian Futurists | 3/3/1972 | See Source »

...characters? "In the course of the actual writing of the novel . . . The novelist is in the same position as his reader. But his perceptions should be always just in advance." What is the novelist's-or any writer's-object? "To whittle down his meaning to the exactest and finest possible point. What, of course, is fatal is when he does not know what he does mean: he has no point to sharpen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kind Lady | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

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