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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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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate 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
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
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World

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