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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.

V.S. Naipaul

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
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
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough 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
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
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
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong

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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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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