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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking 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 you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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 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

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