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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 only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
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
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
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 ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself

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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