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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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The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
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 ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate

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