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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.

V.S. Naipaul

I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel

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