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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

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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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
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
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
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

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