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I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.
Fiction Interpret My Own Own
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Did Even Foolproof He
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I don't feel hatred for Zuniga.

Feel Hatred
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Beneath Rule Great Pen
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Choosing Humans Knack Precisely
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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

About Beings Constant Human
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Luck Fancy Name Ready
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A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.

Bow Cannot Defeat Forever
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Afraid Cabin Holding Long
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

African Because Clearly European
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?

After Claims Diligently Elizabeth
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When we lose, we don't have to change everything but correct things by working hard.

Change Correct Everything Hard
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Does Dreams Dwell Forget
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The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
Easiest Person Deceive
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
Confession End Oneself Tell
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I can't protect myself when I'm not facing the play.

Facing Myself Play Protect
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Against Ashamed Bothering Hold
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Fresh mind Body Drain Yesterday
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Anything Brain Itself Keeps
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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The only thing that can protect me from someone coming from behind are the rules.
Behind Coming Me Only
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Best Eat Must Our
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

Gray Hair Knows Age
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I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious way. It is their primary imaginative activity. Maybe that's an experience which is not so common any more with the presence of television in every home.

Activity Any Child Children
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I'm Messi Football Club.

Club Football Messi
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Beautiful Caution Great Must
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Come Coming Does Just
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
Autobiography Storytelling Writing
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I respect his decisions, but football without Messi is not football. It is very hard to imagine football without him.

Decisions Football Hard Him
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

Africa Bleeding Body Busy
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When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Person World Better Pound
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Age Cannot Feels Forget
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Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good - it is bad.

Against Bad Good Great
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I really don't believe in magic.
Believe Magic Really Don't
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What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

Wandering Happiness Narrow Compass
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

African Bondage Exactly Expect
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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I am not the type of person who lets the pressure get to him. I try to see it as my friend. I align with it to calm me down.

Align Am Calm Down
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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Fool Flatters Himself Wise
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Amusing Backgrounds Been Both
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Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Enthusiasm Genius Sincerity Truth
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I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

Captain Football Huge HugeResponsibility
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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Enough Lies Moment Old
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Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Every man Vigilantly Resolves Genius
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Against Anyone Fates Intelligence
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
Good heart Heads World
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I prefer beating Real Madrid to beating Manchester City!

Beating City Madrid Manchester
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Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Power Characteristically Calmness Strength
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Climbing Depression Efforts Entails
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Away Failure Means Stripping
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