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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

V.S. Naipaul

But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing

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