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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.

V.S. Naipaul

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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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 a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
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
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
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
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
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World

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