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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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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 am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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 profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
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

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