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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing

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