Writers should provoke disagreement.
V.S. NAIPAULIt isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
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Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
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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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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All cultures have been mingled forever.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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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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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I don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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