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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V.S. Naipaul

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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner 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
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing

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