The Journey Not the Arrival Matters: An Autobiography of the Years 1939 to 1969The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable literary achievements of our time" (New York Times Book Review). Index; photographs. |
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... diary on March 20 , 1940 , walking over the water - meadows I tried - no doubt too emphatically - to explain to her what I felt about it . Like everything of hers , it had things in it which could only have been hers and very good they ...
... diary on March 20 , 1940 , walking over the water - meadows I tried - no doubt too emphatically - to explain to her what I felt about it . Like everything of hers , it had things in it which could only have been hers and very good they ...
Page 77
... diary : Many many deep thoughts have visited me . And fled . The pen puts salt on their tails ; they see the shadow and fly . I was thinking about vampires . Leeches . Anyone with 500 a year and education is at once sucked by the ...
... diary : Many many deep thoughts have visited me . And fled . The pen puts salt on their tails ; they see the shadow and fly . I was thinking about vampires . Leeches . Anyone with 500 a year and education is at once sucked by the ...
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... diary , with the inexcusable arrogance and sublime courage of youth , some sarcastic — and not unjustified - criticism of my superior , the Government Agent of the Southern Province . ) These official diaries go back in some provinces ...
... diary , with the inexcusable arrogance and sublime courage of youth , some sarcastic — and not unjustified - criticism of my superior , the Government Agent of the Southern Province . ) These official diaries go back in some provinces ...
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