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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing

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