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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

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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments 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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
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
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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People

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