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But everything of value about me is in my books.

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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
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 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
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
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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

But everything of value about me is in my books.

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