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It is important not to trust people too much.

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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim

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