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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

V.S. Naipaul

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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
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
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing

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