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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.

V.S. Naipaul

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
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
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing

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