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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.

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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
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 world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
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
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
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
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

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