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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

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