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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.

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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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
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
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.

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