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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.

V.S. Naipaul

People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
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
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
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 details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live 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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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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