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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible

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