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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.

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