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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

V.S. Naipaul

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments 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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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
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

There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.

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