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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

V.S. Naipaul

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
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True

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