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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

V.S. Naipaul

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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
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
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
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
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
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

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

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