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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

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
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
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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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
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
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

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