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

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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 is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible

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