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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing

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