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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

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
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
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.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing

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

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