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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.

V.S. Naipaul

The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
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
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
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
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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

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