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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

V.S. Naipaul

A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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Civilization Conquer Death World
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Fiction Growth Intuition
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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Myself Pieces Reading Woman
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 world is always in movement.
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Change Movement One Liner 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
It’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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Attraction Beginning Group History Intellectual Myself People Victim
Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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Books Luck Moments Myself Wait Writing
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe

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