My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
V.S. NAIPAULLife 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.
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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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I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.
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After all, we make ourselves according to the ideas we have of our possibilities.
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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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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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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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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.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation – it makes things universal.
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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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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