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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

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
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
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
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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Ideal Reveal Start View World Wrong
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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Material Myself Separate Writing
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong

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