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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

V.S. Naipaul

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
My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Life Listening Myself
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Interest People Time
Writing has to support itself.
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One Liner Support Writing
The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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Darkness Existence Kind World
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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Establishment Greatness Imitation Man Mindset Movie Original Story Time
I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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Authority Feeling Myself People Talk Worth
I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Kind Myself People Thinking Writing
I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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Feeling People Time Yourself
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
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
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Beginning Community Death End Life Myself Politics
His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Himself Ignorance Reading
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Man Place World Worth
The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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Aspect City Estate
All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Culture Forever One Liner
After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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Ideas Ourselves Possible

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