You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
V.S. NAIPAULThe only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.
More V.S. Naipaul Quotes
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Ignorant people in preppy clothes are more dangerous to America than oil embargoes.
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The writer is all alone.
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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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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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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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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
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Small things start us in new ways of thinking.
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Writing has to support itself.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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I’m my own writer. My material means I’m entirely separate.
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The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.
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