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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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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
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
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
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel

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