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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V.S. Naipaul

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
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
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate 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
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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