But everything of value about me is in my books.
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It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them . . . best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.
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An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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