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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.

V.S. Naipaul

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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death 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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise 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
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System

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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