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. NAIPAULI 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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I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people’s lands.
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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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It is important not to trust people too much.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it’s complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he’s able to keep processing that as well.
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The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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As 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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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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