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Making a book is such a big enterprise.

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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth

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