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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner 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
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument 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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

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