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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking 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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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
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
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
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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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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