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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

V.S. Naipaul

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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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 world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
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
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time 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
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time

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