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

V.S. Naipaul

The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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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Country Culture Decision Essence Expression Law Live Yourself
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Inheritance Ourselves Stranger Understand
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
All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Father Reading Right Story
The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Death Kill Past See
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
One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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Born Expectation Ideas People Work Yourself

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

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