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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V.S. Naipaul

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
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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
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

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