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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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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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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 am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand 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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise 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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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

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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