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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

V.S. Naipaul

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True

One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.

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