The world is always in movement.
V.S. NAIPAULPeople come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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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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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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