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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.

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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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End Eyes Need People See World
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
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation 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
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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.

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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.

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