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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.

V.S. Naipaul

In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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Beginning Lost Man Myself Side White Win
It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
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City Goodness Heart Lost Path Place Separate Unknown
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
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
Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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Children Feeling Home Ideas Night Place Safety
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
The Europeans wanted gold and slaves, like everybody else; but at the same time they wanted statues put up to themselves as people who had done good things for the slaves.
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Gold Goodness Help Slave Time
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 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
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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