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See that little stream -- we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it -- a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million bloody rugs. No Europeans will ever do that again in this generation." "Why, they've only just quit over in Turkey," said Abe. "And in Morocco --" "That's diff..
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Raflara dogru ilerledi Stoddart Lectures kitabin birinci cildi ile geri dondu. "Goruyor musunuz?" diye bagirdi muzaffer bir edayla, "Iste hakiki bir kitap. Ne kadar yanilmisim . Bu adam tam bir Belasco!1 Bu buyuk bir zafer. Ne zevkli ne guzel bir secim! Hem haddini bilip sayfalari da kesip azaltmamis. Daha ne istenir ki?" 1 David Belasco (1853 - 1931) Amerikali Oyun yazari. Devasa bir kutuphaneye sahipti."
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General Grant invented this kind of battle at Petersburg in sixty- five." "No, he didn't--he just invented mass butchery. This kind of battle was invented by Lewis Carroll and Jules Verne and whoever wrote Undine, and country deacons bowling and marraines in Marseilles and girls seduced in the back lanes of Wurtemburg and Westphalia. Why, this was a love battle--there was a century of middle-class love spent here. This was the last love bat..
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To Frances Turnbull Nov. 9, 1938 p. 368 I've read the story carefully and, Frances, I'm afraid the price for doing professional work is a good deal higher than you are prepared to pay at present. You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed..
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