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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

V.S. Naipaul

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
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
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
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 outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

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