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But everything of value about me is in my books.

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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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust

But everything of value about me is in my books.

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