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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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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support 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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise

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