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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V.S. Naipaul

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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