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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

V.S. Naipaul

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
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
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
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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