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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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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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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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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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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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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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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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