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I’ve never abandoned the novel.

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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory

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