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In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.

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Write something, even if it’s just a suicide note.
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Note Suicide Writing
I am not, at heart, a playwright.
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Heart Personality Play
I can understand companionship.
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Companionship Understand
Between fourteen and nineteen, I must have begun and abandoned six novels.
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Age Beginning Myself
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
My father had lifelong contempt for politicians.
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Father Life Myself Politics
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
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Confidence Personality Style Yourself
I’m exactly as I appear. There is no warm, lovable person inside. Beneath my cold exterior, once you break the ice, you find cold water.
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Appearance Cold Love Warm Water Yourself
A friend was surprised to hear me say that there was not one moment of my past that I would like to relive.
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Friendship Moments Myself Past Surprise
It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author’s experience worked out literally.
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Essential Experience Literature Natural Work
Boys don’t like girls around when they do boy things.
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Character Human Male Nature

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