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

V.S. Naipaul

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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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

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