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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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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
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’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
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 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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing

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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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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