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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

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 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
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way

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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