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- But everything of value about me is in my books.
- All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
- The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
- 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…
- I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary…
- If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much 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…
- There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to…
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