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I’ve never abandoned the novel.

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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing

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