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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

V.S. Naipaul

I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
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
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe

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