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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

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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
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
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
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening 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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments 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
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

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