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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

V.S. Naipaul

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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 profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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

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