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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

V.S. Naipaul

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
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself
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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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

One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.

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