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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

V.S. Naipaul

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
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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Easy Light Myself Name Talk Way
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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