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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V.S. Naipaul

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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