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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

V.S. Naipaul

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
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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 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 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
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
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
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
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

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