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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

V.S. Naipaul

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
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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