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The world is always in movement.

V.S. Naipaul

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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
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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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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 is always in movement.

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