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- As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother's house. All children, I suppose, come into the…
- What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And- though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports…
- 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…
- Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
- I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
- I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
- Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the…
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