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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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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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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
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
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live 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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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