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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

V.S. Naipaul

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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Book End Live 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 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
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
If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead.
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Creation Death Writing
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Myself Reputation Way
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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
I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Myself Quality Quite Reading Thinking Wonderful
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
The writer is all alone.
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Alone One Liner Writing
I will say I am the sum of my books.
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Books Myself
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate

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