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- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
- Archetypal
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- Nov 07, 2020
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open; your field is the entire human condition.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one in the family who was in any way artistic or a potential mentor to a budding writer, and yet this is what I became.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that probably drew me to writing was that it was something you could get on with by yourself. Publishing means going public. But the actual activity could scarcely be more invisible. And private.
- Nov 07, 2020