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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

V.S. Naipaul

Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
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
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
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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