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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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The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough 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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing

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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