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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

V.S. Naipaul

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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition

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