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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand 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
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time

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