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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

It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time

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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