“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.”
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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
