Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V.S. NAIPAULOne must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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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I’m thought to be a tough writer, but I’m really a softie.
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You need someone to see what you’ve done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what’s gone into it.
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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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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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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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Home is, I suppose just a child’s idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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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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I 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’ve never abandoned the novel.
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One isn’t born one’s self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people’s ideas – and you have to work through it all.
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If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.
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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 isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
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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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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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