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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

V.S. Naipaul

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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 still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way

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