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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

V.S. Naipaul

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

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