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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

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Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing

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