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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing

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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