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“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.”
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“For a creative writer possession of the ''truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.”
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“The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.”
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“One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.”
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“What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?”
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“Myths which are believed in tend to become true.”
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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
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“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”
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“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
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“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
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“To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.”
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