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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

V.S. Naipaul

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

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