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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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 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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
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

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

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