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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

V.S. Naipaul

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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 always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
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
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
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System

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