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

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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner 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
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
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
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 outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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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