Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V.S. NAIPAULIt’s very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing. If you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you’ve got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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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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It isn’t that there’s no right and wrong here. There’s no right.
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A civilization which has taken over the world cannot be said to be dying.
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The writer is all alone.
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Writing has to support itself.
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The world is always in movement.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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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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You can’t deny what you’ve learned; you can’t deny your travels; you can’t deny the nature of your life.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
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