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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

V.S. Naipaul

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
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 always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
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
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
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

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