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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

V.S. Naipaul

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
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
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
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
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
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 writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible

In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

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