When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
V.S. NAIPAULThe world is always in movement.
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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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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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This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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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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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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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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People come and go all the time; the world has always been in movement.
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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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Life 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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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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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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His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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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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