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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

V.S. Naipaul

It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
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
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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Act Judgement Try Understand Wisdom
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
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
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
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Easy Element Myself Surprise Writing
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
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

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