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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

V.S. Naipaul

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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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

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