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" I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness. "

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" I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie. "

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" I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing. "

" 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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" My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh. "

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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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" There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to. "

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