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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

The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
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
I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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Born Hands Home Myself People Search
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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Man Place World Worth
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
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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

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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