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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

V.S. Naipaul

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong 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
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
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

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