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"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."
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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."
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"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
Censorship
"I am a writer of fragments."
Writing
"I am against the notion of style in itself."
Style
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
Mind
"There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio."
Life
"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."
Creativity
"Puns are a form of humor with words."
Humor
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
Identity
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
Identity
"I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels."
Books
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