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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.

V.S. Naipaul

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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’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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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

You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.

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