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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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