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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

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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Appearance Clothes Dangerous Ignorance People
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
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live Writing
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
People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Movement People Time World
This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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Lecture Myself People Reading True
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
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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Ancestor Family Father Mom Myself
Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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Freedom Limitation People Possible Vision World
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
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
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Answer Philosophy Right Wrong
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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Books Career Feeling Myself
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
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
When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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Learning Myself Strength Strong Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value
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
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
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
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

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