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

V.S. Naipaul

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
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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 ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
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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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
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
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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

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