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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

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