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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.

V.S. Naipaul

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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Childhood Deal Experience Himself Kind Life Writing
As a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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Beyond Children Home Myself World
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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Detail Friendship Inspirational Life Mystery Writing
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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Abandonment Myself Novel
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
The world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner World
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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Learning Life Nature Travel Yourself
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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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics

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