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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

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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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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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Beyond Children Home Myself World
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible

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