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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to our ideas…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat with paws…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers,…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great…
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We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If…
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We also must learn to listen more to our conscience. Be careful, however: this does not mean we ought to follow our…
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There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.
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I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to…
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Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to…
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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which…
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You made peace,” said the buffalo man. “You took our words and made them your own. They never understood that they were…
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We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do…
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I can fully describe relationships in terms of a wave theory... Every relationships ends up in superpositions. Could be either constructive or…
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Let us begin by clearing up the old confusion between theman who loves learning and the man who loves reading, and point…
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