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

V.S. Naipaul

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
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
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
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World

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