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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.

V.S. Naipaul

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
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
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
It is important not to trust people too much.
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Important One Liner People Trust
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Big Books Enterprise
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn’t know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
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Book Day Myself Past Writing
One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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Oneself Situation Truth Universe
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Comedy Deep Moments Writing
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
The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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Confidence Family Fight Ideas Important Law Respect Society
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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
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
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Ideas Intuition Myself Start Trust Understand Writing

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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