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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.

V.S. Naipaul

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
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’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live 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
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World

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