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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

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
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
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics

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