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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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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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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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