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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.

V.S. Naipaul

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way

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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