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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.

V.S. Naipaul

I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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
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
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
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics

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