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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
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
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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