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

V.S. Naipaul

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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People Proud Stupidity
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
I became very interested in the Islamic question, and thought I would try to understand it from the roots, ask very simple questions and somehow make a narrative of that discovery.
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Discover Interest Question Religion Simplicity Thinking
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
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
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
If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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Oppression Sit Talk Writing
And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over.
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Death Man Moments Myself Sadness Sorrow Strange Victory
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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Beginning Business Intuition Myself Reason

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

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