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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

The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
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
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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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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Born Hands Home Myself People Search

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