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. NAIPAULAs a child I knew almost nothing, nothing beyond what I had picked up in my grandmother’s house. All children, I suppose, come into the world like that, not knowing who they are.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
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All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.
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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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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn’t fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will – with luck – come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise
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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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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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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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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.
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I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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