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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

V.S. Naipaul

Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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 know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
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
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World

One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

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