An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
V. S. Naipaul

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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.

The writer is all alone.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.