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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.

V.S. Naipaul

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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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Book Day Myself Past Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself

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