Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.
V.S. NAIPAULYou need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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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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The world is always in movement.
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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing – which is never an easy thing to do.
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Writing has to support itself.
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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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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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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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