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

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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time

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