I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the em — Robertson Davies
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I shall be as brief as I can, for it is not by piling up detail that I hope to achieve my picture, but by putting the emphasis where I think it belongs.

— Robertson Davies
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