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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.

V.S. Naipaul

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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking 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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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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