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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live 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
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
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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind 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
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value

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