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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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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
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
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
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

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