In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
V.S. NAIPAULPeople come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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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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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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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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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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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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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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