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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.

V.S. Naipaul

I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
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.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
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
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself

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