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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

The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
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
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe

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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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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