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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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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
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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 know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom 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
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
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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People

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