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It is important not to trust people too much.

V.S. Naipaul

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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time

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