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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

V.S. Naipaul

You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
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
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
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
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

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