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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
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
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
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.

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