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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

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 still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise

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