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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
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
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 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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing

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