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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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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
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 a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait 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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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