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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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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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
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
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking 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

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