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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
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 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
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
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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

As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

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As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.

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