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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.

V.S. Naipaul

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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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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Need Reading See Understand Yourself
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
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 ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Alone Guidance Ideas Intuition Politics System
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing

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