← It is true that had his gifts, such as they were, been acknowledged in his lifetime, he would never have made the bargain I saw him make—that strange bargain whose results have kept him always in the foreground of my memory. 🔊
← And how can I write about Enoch Soames without making him ridiculous? 🔊
← I avoided Soames because he made me feel rather vulgar. 🔊
← I felt that his behavior made me ridiculous in the eyes of the other man. 🔊
← The devil had made as though to stretch forth his hand across the table, but he paused in his gesture. 🔊
← I made a gesture of despair. 🔊
← "I'm awfully sorry for you, Soames, and I make all possible allowances; but what earthly right have you to insinuate that I should make 'copy,' as you call it, out of you?" 🔊
← The men at the round desk in the middle seemed to have a sort of panic whenever I went to make inquiries." 🔊
← "And you're so hopelessly not an artist that, so far from being able to imagine a thing and make it seem true, you're going to make even a true thing seem as if you'd made it up. 🔊
← "Try," was the prayer he threw back at me as the devil pushed him roughly out through the door—"Try to make them know that I did exist!" 🔊