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

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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
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
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

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