All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world is always in movement.
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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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There are two ways of talking. One is the easy way, where you talk lightly, and the other one is the considered way. The considered way is what I have put my name to.
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I’ve never abandoned the novel.
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In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
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My life is short. I can’t listen to banality.
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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 don’t feel I can speak with authority for many other people.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I still think it’s really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.
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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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Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
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Writing has to support itself.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.
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