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

V.S. Naipaul

I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk 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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
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
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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

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