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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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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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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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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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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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The writer is all alone.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Writing has to support itself.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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