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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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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
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
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments 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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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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Enough History Ideas Man Need

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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