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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.

V.S. Naipaul

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
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
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Fake Intellectual Mistake Quantity Travel Yourself
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 could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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End Eyes Need People See World
Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
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Enough History Ideas Man Need
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can’t do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.
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Hell Life Patience Prevent Trouble Wait Yourself
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
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.
V.S. NAIPAUL

Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Inspirational One Liner Start Thinking Way
The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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Ourselves Punishment True
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
Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Agreement Argument Writing
But everything of value about me is in my books.
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Books Myself Value

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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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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