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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.

V.S. Naipaul

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
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
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself

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