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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

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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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 writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth

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