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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
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 ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself

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