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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

V.S. Naipaul

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 always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
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
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World

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