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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

I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
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
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
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
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World

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