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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

V.S. Naipaul

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 am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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Myself Personality Soft Thinking Tough Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.

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