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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
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

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

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