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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

V.S. Naipaul

I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time 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
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
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
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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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading

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