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

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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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

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