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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

Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate

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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