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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.

V.S. Naipaul

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People Sadness Stupidity World
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
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.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
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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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth

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