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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.

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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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
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
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
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
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself

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