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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.

V.S. Naipaul

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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

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