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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

V.S. Naipaul

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself

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