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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

V.S. Naipaul

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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 has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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