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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

Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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 cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
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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