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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.

V.S. Naipaul

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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
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
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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel

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