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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner 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

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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