I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.
V.S. NAIPAULThe 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 have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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