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/ page 212 of 1205 /A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
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Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?
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To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
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It was always a great surprise to me that I was good at games. One of these was called fives, and the other was squash-racquets.
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The sweet-shop in Llandaff in the year 1923 was the very centre of our lives. TO us, it was what a bar is to a drunk. Without it, there would have been little to live for.
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I was 20 years old. I was off to East Africa, where I would walk about in khaki shorts every day and wear a topi on my head.
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
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The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort.
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
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Game-playing at school is always fun if you happen to be good at it, and it is hell if you are not. I was one of the lucky ones.
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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
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None of us, even on the sunniest days in 1934, went without his furled umbrella. The umbrella was our badge of office. We felt naked without it.
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I learned to speak Swahili and to shake the scorpions out of my mosquito boots in the mornings. I learned what it was like to get malaria and to run a temperature of 105 degrees for three days.
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In adversity remember to keep an even mind.
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Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
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A word once uttered can never be recalled.
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