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The world is always in movement.

V.S. Naipaul

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 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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking 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
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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
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
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself

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