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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 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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
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

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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