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And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.

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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing

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