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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

V.S. Naipaul

If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death 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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity

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