Writers should provoke disagreement.
V.S. NAIPAULA civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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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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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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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Writing has to support itself.
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