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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 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
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
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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 ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible

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

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