Playing Surface

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    Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?
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    A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.
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