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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

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
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
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
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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

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