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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.

V.S. Naipaul

All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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 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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.

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