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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

V.S. Naipaul

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
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening 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
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live 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
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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

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