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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument 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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself

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