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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.

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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
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 am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
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
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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.

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