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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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
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
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

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

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