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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

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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 my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
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
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
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong

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