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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.

V.S. Naipaul

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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
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
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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 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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