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The writer is all alone.

V.S. Naipaul

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
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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
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
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
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing

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