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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

V.S. Naipaul

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision 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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
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
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Fact Fiction Lying Writing
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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
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

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