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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.

V.S. Naipaul

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
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

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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