"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."

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"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."

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"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones."

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"Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people."

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"They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again."

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"Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film."

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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."

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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."

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"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."

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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."

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"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."

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"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."

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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."

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