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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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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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
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
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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking 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

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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