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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

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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
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
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
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win

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