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.
V.S. NAIPAULEach book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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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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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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