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If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.

V.S. Naipaul

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk 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
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
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way

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