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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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Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing

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