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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
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
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
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
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing

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