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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.

V.S. Naipaul

I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom

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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