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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.

V.S. Naipaul

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation 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
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth

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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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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