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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
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
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
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
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way

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