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

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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
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
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
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
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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
It has had a calamitous effect on converted peoples. To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say ‘my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn’t matter’.
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Affect Calm Destroy Existence History Myself Past People
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World

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