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

V.S. Naipaul

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong

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