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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

V.S. Naipaul

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason
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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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
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
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
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
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World

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