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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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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
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life 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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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