Expectations IV

"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."
--V. S. Naipaul
(August 17, 1932 - August 11, 2018)
Quoted in "V.S. Naipaul in Search of Himself: A Conversation" with Mel Gussow, The New York Times, (April 24, 1994)