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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

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing

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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