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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
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
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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

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