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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

V.S. Naipaul

When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
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
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

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