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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
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
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing

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