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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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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 have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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

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