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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.

V.S. Naipaul

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
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
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See

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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