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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.

V.S. Naipaul

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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