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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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