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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

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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom

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

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