If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
V.S. NAIPAULIn England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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Writing has to support itself.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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The world is always in movement.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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