If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. A… — Quoted

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“If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.”

V. S. Naipaul · Loneliness

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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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