The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.

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The fictional treatment of biographical material – a treatment that for me is essential – is full of traps.

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I don’t have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
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Being Big Boss never Small
The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

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The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose
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Around Brutal Circle Neck Noose Tighten
Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.

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Competition between women is good only if it does not prevail; that is to say if it coexists with affinity, affection, with a real sense of being mutually indispensable, with sudden peaks of solidarity in spite of envy, jealousy and the whole inevitable cohort of bad feelings.
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Affinity Between Coexist Does Say Indispemdible Mutually Only Ral Sudden
The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick.
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First Say Tell
As a girl – twelve, thirteen years old – I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.

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As a girl – twelve, thirteen years old – I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me.
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Absolutely Certain Depressed Thirteen Year
It’s the people who love us or hate us – or both – who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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Both Thousand Together Us
Women, in all fields – whether mothers or not – still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.

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Women, in all fields – whether mothers or not – still encounter an extraordinary number of obstacles. They have to hold too many things together and often sacrifice their aspirations in the name of affections.
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Filed Number
I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic – if we can call it that – between high and low. Maybe it’s because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

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I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic – if we can call it that – between high and low. Maybe it’s because I was not born or brought up in affluence.
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Careful Economic Paid
At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.

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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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Answer Find Most Nay Recently Something Write Written
Those who write need that “willing suspension of disbelief “, as Coleridge called it.
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Disbelief Suspension Willing Write
Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

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Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.
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Even Examination Happy Moment Pleautre Rigorous
I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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Author No Once Written
We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.

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We lie in order to tolerate our existence and, most of all, we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Most Order
The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.

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The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.
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Do Knowm
My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.

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My work stops at publication. If the books don’t contain in themselves their reasons for being – questions and answers – it means I was wrong to have them published.
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Answer Being Contain Publication Themselves
I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

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I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.
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Constitute Huge Male Recount Sexually Think Tradition

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