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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

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
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself

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