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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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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
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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
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
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand

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

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