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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.

V.S. Naipaul

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
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
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
Life doesn’t have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.
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Beginning End Life Yourself

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